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...scheme involving his New Jersey construction company, but Donovan was confident that the case would be thrown out of court. Not so. Last week a New York State Supreme Court justice phoned to tell Donovan, who happened to be in Washington at the time, that he would not dismiss the indictment; Donovan would have to stand trial. Hours later, the Labor Secretary became the first sitting Cabinet member in U.S. history to resign in the face of criminal charges...
...would be easy to dismiss Santilli's claims as the dissatisfied grumblings of a misguided physicist, but his story is too well documented and his charges too serious. While Santilli might have aroused personal opposition in the physics community, the events he relates are too glaring to be attributed to mere personality conflicts. His case is compelling and deserves to be heard--that it has been suppressed so far is undeniable...
...February 25 letter that as such parochial preferences were inferior to cosmopolitan ones, and if the quintet from the Black Students Association (Anthony Ball--Kenneth Johnson--Darryl Parsons--Brian Stevens--Timothy Wilkins) read attentively, they would not find in that letter what they claim I said, that I dismiss "as parochial the Church-of-Latter-Day-Saints and Hillel House...
...Critics dismiss Pickens' defense of shareholder interest. Says Harold Hammer, the Gulf executive vice president who directed his company's effort to thwart the Texan: "My only objection to Pickens is the aura he tries to create when he says he is for the small shareholder. That's just a lot of crap." Says Senator Howard Metzenbaum, an Ohio Democrat: "Pickens makes a crusade out of what he's doing because he can make a lot of money." Many critics have labeled Pickens a greenmailer, a charge he hotly denies. The term describes a type of corporate blackmail in which...
Gibbons said out of approximately three dozen protestors arrested at the store for demonstrations on six dates, two thirds had accepted a court offer to dismiss charges if the defendants would pay for some of the legal costs already incurred...