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Since Washington's flamboyant Mayor Marion Barry was elected in 1978, municipal scandal has been as much a perennial in the nation's capital as cherry blossoms. Barry's ex-wife, two deputy mayors and a host of other officials have been found guilty of crimes from diversion of federal funds to fraud. Two weeks ago, as U.S. Attorney Joseph diGenova wound up a 17-month undercover probe into the awarding of city contracts, a subpoena was served on the mayor ordering him to hand over two pairs of alligator shoes supposedly given to him by a contractor. Investigators also...
...Kremlin banquet, Chirac congratulated his host, Premier Nikolai Ryzhkov, and an unexpected guest, General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev, on their new policies toward political prisoners and Soviet Jews, but added, "You cannot ignore that from our point of view there is a long way to go." Like British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher during her visit to Moscow six weeks earlier, Chirac applauded U.S.-Soviet arms-control negotiations but then defended nuclear deterrence as Europe's peacekeeper over the past 40 years. Ryzhkov replied with a detailed discussion of Soviet arms-reduction aims and complained about France's nuclear policy. "Unfortunately...
...dimmed. The acerbic comedian last week became the latest in a long list of contenders who have tried and failed to dethrone the reigning monarch of the midnight airwaves. In response to increasingly disappointing ratings, Fox Broadcasting Co. decided that beginning this week Rivers was through as the regular host, although she may alternate with a roster of as-yet-unnamed co-hosts. As for Carson, he uttered only a terse "I had no comment when she went on the air, and I have no comment now that she's leaving." Rivers took it like a trouper. "Sometimes things just...
Dortch briefly succeeded Bakker as PTL president and host of its TV show until he was forced out last month. Dortch was found guilty of failing to notify church leaders of Bakker's misconduct and of subsequent deceit (the two men arranged hush-money payments of $265,000 to Hahn and her advisers). Dortch's downfall after 33 years in the ministry was especially awkward. He had been the Illinois superintendent for the denomination and had served 14 years on the very body that ordered his defrocking. Bakker and Dortch, who had no immediate response to the action, have...
...still other applications, the intense magnetic fields that might someday be generated by the new superconductors should benefit any device that now uses electromagnetism in its operation -- medical diagnostic imaging machines, magnetically levitated trains, fusion-energy generators -- and will undoubtedly spawn a host of new machines. Electric motors could increase in power and shrink in size...