Word: golds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...boast about his family's sugar plantation in the Philippines. He lived high, but no one seemed to know how he managed it. "Everyone knew Andrew," says one scene-maker. "He was a very outgoing, fun guy. There was a kind of patheticness about him, because good-looking gold diggers were drawn to him. But I never saw him in a bad mood." In late April, DeSilva/Cunanan told friends he was leaving town, starting with a trip to Minneapolis to visit a former lover named David Madson and another young gay man named Jeffrey Trail...
...invasion of Konigsburg, Russian officials charged that Bonn had hidden the treasure. While the fate of the rest of the room remains unknown, this small portion apparently was stolen by a German truck driver in the convoy transporting pieces of the room to Konigsburg. The 22-by-28 inch gold-framed amber mosaic depicting two couples in a lush garden hung for years in his Potsdam apartment until his son, who disliked it, stored the art in the basement. Once the son realized he might have a piece of the Amber Room, he decided to sell it, unfortunately to undercover...
...agreed to swap the mine for $65 million worth of government holdings elsewhere. Clinton was able to upstage the first day of the Republican Convention last August by posing in a beautiful alpine meadow flanked by an environmentalist and a mining executive, announcing that "Yellowstone is more precious than gold...
...figure was absent from that photo op. Margaret Reeb spent the summers of her girlhood on Henderson's slopes, where her father supervised a mine. Her family has owned claims in the district for over a century. "It was gold seekers who settled the West," she notes crisply. "They built the churches; they built the towns." Her purchase of dozens of nonproducing Henderson claims over 50 years probably struck some as more sentimental than savvy. But now her holdings, on lease to Crown Butte, constitute at least 40% of its goldfield--a portion so large that the pact is specifically...
...wish we could have this event tonight in the Lincoln bedroom," President Clinton told 2,500 gold-plated Democrats who pledged $4 million to their party at a gala dinner last week, "but we did not have enough coffee in the White House." The crowd laughed and clapped at his defiant joke, but Clinton and Democratic heavyweights aren't exchanging many smiles these days...