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When the FBI came swarming into the Vista Hotel in downtown Washington on Jan. 18, 1990, it was a terrible blow to the career of Mayor Marion Barry. It also had a profound effect on the career of another individual--this year's Harvard Law School Class Day speaker, Greta Van Susteren...
...Hahn took an early lead and never gave it up. Villaraigosa didn't come out until nearly 11:30 p.m., when he addressed his supporters at a street party in downtown L.A. in a voice that was so hoarse from campaigning that he could barely talk. He was still defiant. But less than an hour later, he conceded after it became clear that the late- arriving returns from far-out areas of the city like the San Fernando Valley would probably only increase Hahn's lead...
...year; in Santa Clara, California. He will continue serving as chairman and director emeritus but will have no voting power. EXTRADITION UPHELD.Of FRANZ MEIJER 46, to the Netherlands for the 1983 kidnapping of beer magnate Alfred Heineken; in Paraguay. Meijer and four others abducted Heineken and his chauffeur in downtown Amsterdam and held them, often at gunpoint, for three weeks. Meijer fled to South America 18 years ago and has been on the Netherlands' most-wanted list ever since. He faces a 12-year sentence when he returns. ARRESTED. HIROO MIZUSHIMA, 89, former chairman of Sogo Co., on suspicion...
...somehow translate into a big pot of gold. A bullet-train line was built from Tokyo, hotels went up, airport runways were laid down. In all, nearly $1 billion was spent. But once the Olympic torch was extinguished, Nagano's post-Olympic boom failed to materialize. The city's downtown looks deserted and there's plenty of room at the local inns and hotels. "Now that we have the bullet trains," the Governor says, "people can come from Tokyo and go back home in the same day. They don't need to stay overnight." Added to disappointment was some covered...
When the bigger 40-story structure is finished in December, Enron's will be the first new skyscraper in downtown Houston since 1987--to be followed by three more by 2003. Besides Enron, Calpine Corp., the nation's leading independent-power company, based in California, will move into a new 32-story high-rise. And Reliant Resources, the IPO spun off this month from its Houston parent to deal with Texas' new deregulated electricity market, has signed on for offices in a 36-story skyscraper...