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Arab leaders were not alone in suggesting that Saddam could be lured into behaving with more restraint. In the spring of 1984, Teicher accompanied Donald Rumsfeld, then Reagan's special Middle East envoy, on a visit to Israel. Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir told Rumsfeld that Israel considered Iran, not Iraq, to be the greatest threat in the region. According to Teicher, Shamir proposed the construction of an oil pipeline from Iraq to the Israeli port of Haifa as a goodwill gesture. When the U.S. relayed the offer to Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz, he refused to pass it along...
...shut him down, to five U.S. Senators and their staffs. The committee found Senators John Glenn of Ohio ($234,000 in Keating contributions) and John McCain of Arizona ($112,000) the least culpable, engaging only in "poor judgment" because they gave Keating less help than did the others. Senators Donald Riegle of Michigan ($76,000) and Dennis DeConcini of Arizona ($55,000 along with more than $50 million in real estate loans from Lincoln Savings to top campaign aides) gave the "appearance of being improper" because their intervention for Keating was more extensive...
...officials eventually guaranteed that Soering would not face the death penalty; he was returned to the U.S. last year and sentenced to life in prison. Last November a similar commitment was made in the case of Charles Donald Short, a U.S. Air Force sergeant stationed in the Netherlands, who had allegedly murdered and dismembered his wife in 1988. Dutch justices cited the same convention before Short was handed over to U.S. authorities...
...Donald Riegle, Michigan Democrat. Took in $78,250 from Keating and initially denied his ties to the S&L owner...
Executive Vice Presidents: Donald J. Barr, Donald M. Elliman Jr., S. Christopher Meigher III, Robert L. Miller...