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...companies subpoenaed or searched, some of which are likely targets of the investigation, are a Who's Who of 19 defense contractors. Among them: Electronic Data Systems, Gould, Hazeltine, Litton, Loral, LTV, Martin Marietta, McDonnell Douglas, Northrop, Teledyne, Unisys and United Technologies. Since the raids, a federal grand jury in Alexandria, Va., has been delving into charges that some of these defense contractors and their consultants bribed Pentagon officials for inside information vital in bidding for contracts worth billions of dollars. As part of the crackdown, Carlucci last week ordered 16 defense firms to certify on future contracts that they...
...Henry James suspected of being "cerebrally compromised." On the other hand, the Harvard-educated Fullerton, some three years her junior, had drifted into his 40s without accomplishing much of anything except a string of ex- lovers, male and female. Yet she listened with a lover's ears to the grand plans of her perpetually promising gentleman: "And when you spoke of your uncertain future, your longing to break away & do the work you really like, didn't you see how my heart broke with the thought that, if I had been younger & prettier, everything might have been different...
...Year's Eve will bring him to trial on an assault charge July 25, after finishing his new UNI album, Copperhead Road. He could be referring to both his legal exploits and his musical experiments when he predicts, "It's safe to say I'll never get on the Grand Ole Opry now." Copperhead Road mixes pertinent politics and a heavy beat and makes no apologies for either. Says Earle, neatly wrapping up and dismissing the deepest country conventions at once: "Anybody who is writing 150 positive love songs is lying about something...
Though the center is located just a few floors above the Rev. Jesse Jackson's campaign headquarters, Galen insists the Republican presence is "not confrontational." Nor is the Grand Old Party trying to steal all the limelight, Galen maintains. "It's their show. They've got center stage. All we're doing is peeking out from behind the stage...
McKay noted that Meese finally filed an amended return on February 6 of this year, "shortly after the scheduling of the grand jury appearances for the Meese's accountants" in connection with McKay's criminal investigation of the matter...