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...suit to partially recover from the directors and officers of Silverado the $1 billion loss to taxpayers. On Friday Democratic members of the House Judiciary Committee asked the Justice Department to appoint a special prosecutor to handle the Silverado case; but at least one of the members, Edward F. Feighan of Ohio, abruptly withdrew from the effort after G.O.P. leaders threatened to seek the appointment of another special prosecutor to investigate the actions of former Democratic leaders...
...Hutton said, the practices had been uncovered and halted. Ball and Hutton claimed that the March memo later got stapled to the November one. The committee, said Ball, / was led to believe that the documents "constituted a single memo addressed to me." Committee members were skeptical. Ohio Democrat Edward Feighan said he doubted that "overdrafts of more than $100 million were not brought to the attention of upper management...
...away. He refused to go along. He feared for his safety, he said, and preferred to proceed through normal immigration channels. After a heated discussion, the guards slammed Kim into an elevator and took him into custody. Several protesting Americans were shoved and punched. Among them: Democratic Congressmen Edward Feighan of Ohio and Thomas Foglietta of Pennsylvania, and Patt Derian, Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights in the Carter Administration. Said Foglietta: "It was a disgraceful exhibition of force and brutality...
...younger than he is, Democrat Kucinich is accused of going for the jugular even when he does not have to. He accused Republican Mayor Ralph Perk in the primary of selling out to business interests and neglecting the neighborhoods. Perk finished a poor third behind Kucinich and State Representative Feighan...
Then the two survivors turned on each other. Feighan had the backing of the Democratic organization, but Kucinich won with just over 50% of the vote, thus becoming the youngest mayor of a major city. He promises to increase city services to the neighborhoods, reduce tax abatements for businesses and fire unproductive political appointees. "Some people have said I'm going to take a broom and sweep out city hall," Kucinich said in his victory speech. "That's not true. I'm going to use a vacuum cleaner...