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South Koreans won both the men's and women's events at Barcelona, and they're aiming for the same in Atlanta. The U.S. men--Butch Johnson, Justin Huish and Rod White--may contend for a team medal...
Even Dole's road show is mapped out partly by the R.N.C. This is legitimate, according to the Dole campaign, because the candidate, at almost every stop, either attends an R.N.C. fund raiser, helps plan future fund raising for the party or attends a "unity rally," which, aides contend, is really different from a "Dole rally" because unity rallies focus on promoting other Republican candidates. Dole's travel last Thursday was almost completely arranged by the party because he attended a fund raiser on a paddle boat on the Ohio River, a "unity rally" at the landing in Louisville, Kentucky...
Once inside the White House, Livingstone continued to play the big shot. Most disturbing of his grandiose tendencies, three former Clinton staff members told TIME, was Livingstone's habit of insinuating that he had read their security files. The message, they contend, was that Livingstone knew all about their peccadilloes but their secrets were safe with...
Conceding that Friday's move was a step in the right direction, some investigators and officials in the field nonetheless contend that it is another case of the cleanup team's doing the barest minimum necessary to keep the feds at bay. The Buffalo local, they say, is such a well-known Cosa Nostra fortress--and so prominently featured in the Justice Department's original complaint--that union investigators had to act. Also, some of the ousted officials took with them large life-insurance policies with immediate cash value. Those officials also dropped a lawsuit against the international union that...
Under the deal Justice accepted, officials contend, mobsters are indeed being cleaned out--not only in Buffalo but also in the New York City area and soon in Chicago--and Coia has agreed to a rank-and-file vote in September. "It's a stunning achievement in this short period of time," says Coffey. "It took years to accomplish this in the Teamsters." Moreover, Coia himself is very much a target of the investigation his union bankrolls. Says Gow: "I've spent more man-hours on him than on any other entity." Time has also learned that a grand jury...