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...North Carolina Senator, who sits on the ethics panel judging the Keating Five, would probably have to recuse himself in a real courtroom. On the campaign trail he derided Alan Cranston as the Senator "who carried the most water for Charles Keating." Peremptory challenge, anyone...
...culpability of each of the five. He implied that the actions of Arizona Republican John McCain and Ohio Democrat John Glenn were not serious enough to warrant punishment. He portrayed Michigan Democrat Donald Riegle as deceptive and suspiciously forgetful. He laid the heaviest blame on California Democrat Alan Cranston and Arizona Democrat Dennis DeConcini. Cranston, who will undergo cancer treatments this week, has announced that he will not seek re-election. Still, Bennett did not spare any of the five in his six-hour summation...
...Cranston. Bennett claimed that Cranston had not only received $850,000 from Keating for voter-registration drives but also solicited four contributions from the S&L head, often after pleading on his behalf with regulators. Keating even extended Cranston a $300,000 line of credit that he could have used, but did not, in his 1986 campaign...
...ranging from reprimands to expulsion from the Senate, insisted that their actions had been proper under existing rules. Riegle charged that Bennett had omitted exonerating evidence. Glenn noted that he had rejected a Keating fund-raising offer once he learned that Lincoln was under criminal investigation. But it was Cranston who offered the defense that could be most effective with his colleagues. If what the five had done was wrong, Cranston warned, "you better run for cover, because every Senator has done it." If true, that was a powerful argument for reform...
...last-minute "pocketbook" appeal to the party's traditional labor and minority constituencies came too late. While she attracted 58% of the women's vote, she was hurt by low minority turnout. But few believe the Governor's race will be her last hurrah. Democratic Senator Alan Cranston, caught in the tangles of the S&L scandal, announced last week that he is suffering from prostate cancer and will not seek re-election in 1992. A Feinstein-for-Senate campaign is widely expected...