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...case of Helen Brach was legend in Chicago. She had $20 million, and the last time anyone saw her was Feb. 17, 1977. She was 65 and had been a widow since 1970, when her husband, Frank, co-founder of the candy company E.J. Brach & Sons, died at the age of 79. They met in Miami in 1950 at a country club where she ran the hat-check concession. She wasn't very social. She was obsessively attached to her pets; she once chartered a plane home from the Bahamas to tend a mongrel with a bad kidney. She favored...
...investigation of Madison Guaranty S&L. The Senate committee had a special reason to double- check Altman's story: at a hearing earlier this year, he repeatedly told the committee that he knew of only one meeting on the RTC case between the Treasury and the White House -- on Feb. 2 of this year. Altman hewed to the line that the Feb. 2 meeting -- attended by White House counsel Bernard Nussbaum and top White House staffers Harold Ickes and Margaret Williams -- turned only on how the RTC normally handles cases when the statute of limitations on civil actions is about...
...White House's defensiveness about its interest in the case leads several Republican Senators to think the White House was interested not only in information but also in some measure of control over the RTC probe. During the Feb. 2 meeting, Nussbaum and other White House officials preferred that Altman not recuse himself from the RTC's Madison-Whitewater case. At the time of the session, Altman was leaning toward relinquishing his formal authority over the case, as he was advised to do by several Treasury colleagues, including Bentsen. But when the meeting got under way, the White House officials...
...World Trade Center bombing seemed wrapped up, Canadian authorities detained another man wanted for FBI questioning. Charles Lee Knox, a.k.a. Mohammad Abbas, was arrested Friday in Ottawa. The Feds want to know if he's connected to a Libyan terrorist group--and if that group was behind the Feb. 25, 1993, bombing that killed six people and injured more than 1,000. Four men are already serving life sentences for the deed...
...Tyson wasn't satisfied with that. Having pressured Puerto Rico to ditch the labeling requirement, the chicken giant struck for more. The Broiler Council began an attempt to craft new regulations even more favorable to the mainland producers. At a Feb. 18 meeting in San Juan attended by Puerto Rican officials and poultry-industry representatives, Tyson momentarily dropped the pretense that the industry group was doing the lobbying. While the Broiler Council had requested the session, records reviewed by TIME show clearly that it was a Tyson vice president, Mike Morrison, who described in detail the many rules Tyson wanted...