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...intended for the poor to favor well-connected real estate developers and Republican consultants. Broadening a two-count indictment issued against her in April, a federal grand jury indicted Dean, 37, on 13 criminal charges of fraud, perjury and conspiracy. The indictment accused her of using her position to dispatch $230,000 in HUD funds to John Mitchell, Richard Nixon's Attorney General...
...hometown reception given the body of a young Marine, one of the first American casualties of the Persian Gulf war. Riley also has a keen eye for the nuances of tangled race relations. Raised in Charlotte, N.C., and educated at Wake Forest University, he worked at the Dispatch in Lexington, N.C., where he covered his first cross burning. Mike then went north to study at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government before coming to work...
...necessary to prevent ethnic bloodshed, and develop mechanisms to carry it out. The old idea was that outsiders had no business interfering with anything a government might do within its borders to its own people. That principle has been shattered within the past 13 months by two events: the dispatch of a U.N. force to northern Iraq to protect Kurds from massacre by Saddam Hussein's forces (the Kurds have since set up what amounts to an autonomous zone there); and the arrival, however tardy, of the U.N. peacekeeping force in Croatia while the Croats were still fighting to break...
...independence. "Nagorno-Karabakh risks entering a new phase of all-out conflict that could possibly draw in other states," warned Armenian Foreign Minister Raffi Hovannisian, referring to the competition between Turkey and Iran for influence in the region. To avoid that, he said, "there must be a simultaneous dispatch not only of international observers but of peacekeeping troops...
...Crimson was supposed to beat Brown on Saturday, and then dispatch Dartmouth to force a tie for the championship...