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These charges also revealed the growing ability of the SEC to crack cases without the help of the leads that played such a major role in the still spreading Boesky probe. Just as important, it demonstrated the SEC's willingness to track down suspects beyond U.S. borders, a crucial enforcement step in an era of global stock trading...
...didn't unfurl its tend until Meg made her fatal mistake--she died. When her children, Bessie and John, found out that they didn't even get the placque that used to hang over the kitchen sink with the Lord's Prayer on it, all hell broke loose. Special crack teams of Rockefeller lawyers, trained in jungle survival techniques by G. Gordon Liddy and in rhetoric by Jesse Jackson, sprang out of camouflaged foxholes to launch a frontal attack on the U.S. judiciary system. The objective: $50 million in diamonds, stock, and Third World countries...
Illicit drug use by teenagers last year was 3% lower than in 1985. The ! number of students using cocaine showed a modest overall decline, though frequency of use -- especially of crack -- has grown. For legal drugs, the numbers are more disturbing. Nearly two-thirds reported prior-month use of alcohol, and 19% admitted to being daily cigarette smokers -- a small drop for the smokers and virtually no change for the drinkers...
...reduce the number of nuclear weapons, a goal that Howard Baker strongly endorses. That is both Reagan's greatest challenge and foremost opportunity; Mikhail Gorbachev seems clearly to want an arms-control pact, and soon. To get one, some advisers are urging the President to overcome his reluctance to crack heads and insist on getting the Pentagon and Foggy Bottom into harmony. Reagan's most recent decision has been in favor of Pentagon hawks who are out to kill any chance of arms control. The President has decided at least tentatively to adopt a "broad" interpretation of the 1972 antiballistic...
Although hardly flawless, The Day Room is impressively successful as DeLillo's first play. Its return to Cambridge was no doubt encouraged by last year's well-received A.R.T. run. Theatergoers are fortunate to have another crack at it, especially given the uneven quality of this season's A.R.T. offerings. Lately, first-rate scripts seem hard to come by, and Don DeLillo looks to be a valuable resource in the future. Let's hope his promise is no mere illusion...