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Ferguson said she knew Dreyer was a member of the Charter Club, one of Princeton's 13 eating clubs. She said she was able to confirm with other club members that certain members of the club had sustained the long Fairfax tradition since its inception...
...Ivan Boesky was nabbed last November and began cooperating with authorities. Wigton, Freeman and Tabor have not been shown to have had any direct dealings with Boesky, but they were trapped, almost by chance, in the widening network of information that the investigators were gathering. Their arrests seemed to confirm what many bankers and investors had long feared: in the frenetic climate of Wall Street's protracted bull market, insider trading had become a spreading stain with the potential to blacken the reputation of the entire financial community...
...Washington, State Department officials studiously avoided any suggestion that a trade was in the works. Spokesman Charles Redman refused to confirm or deny that the U.S. and Israel were preparing a deal. As speculation about secret diplomacy grew last week, Secretary of State George Shultz gave vent to some undiplomatic anger. Speaking to an American Legion delegation, he declared, "We want to raise the cost to those animals that hold the hostages." Yet Shultz, a strong advocate of last April's U.S. bombing of Libya to punish Leader Muammar Gaddafi's support for terrorism, shied away from any hint that...
...used on the team's practice field. Pasco Balzarini, a retired maintenance worker, remembers using a product called Milorganite on the field from 1947 until the mid-'50s (though he does not believe he used it in Waters' era, and neither the 49ers nor the local parks department can confirm it was ever used). Milorganite, made by the Milwaukee metropolitan sewerage district, is a heat- dried residue of sewage sludge and is used on lawns nationwide. Prior to 1978, it had a high content of cadmium, a heavy metal...
...tumor, President Reagan at first refused to discuss replacing him, believing it would slow Casey's recovery. CIA spokesmen insisted their boss was "reading and absorbing" reports and taking telephone calls, but others who saw Casey were skeptical that he could take telephone calls from anyone. Indeed, Administration sources confirm that the President's aides have communicated with the Director principally through CIA officials and his wife Sophia, who actually signed Casey's letter of resignation...