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During a speech yesterday at the Graduate School of Design, Henry Cisneros, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) called for safe, inexpensive middle-class housing developments and less governmental involvement in building...
...solve the problem, HUD is basing its new designs on the concept of "defensible space...
...list of figureheads in the Dole operation, Dole is trying to reach out to conservatives who do not trust him," says political correspondent Michael Duffy. "To some conservatives, Quayle still has a kind of talismanic power." Earlier this year, Dole similarly reached out to economic conservatives by having ex-HUD Secretary Jack Kemp named to head a tax reform commission...
...special three-judge court today appointed David Barrett, a former counsel to the House ethics committee, to investigate whether HUD Secretary Henry Cisneros committed a crime by misleading the FBI about payments to his former mistress during pre-confirmation background checks. "Information provided by Secretary Cisneros concerning his payments to (Linda) Medlar was false," Reno told a special court when she asked for the appointment March 14. People familiar with the case have said a number of lawyers who were approached for the position took themselves out of consideration because they had done legal work involving Cisneros' department...
...HUD Secretary Henry Cisneros agreed to pay his former mistress $49,000 to settle her lawsuit accusing him of reneging on a promise to support her financially after their breakup. Linda Medlar, who had a two-year affair with Cisneros when he was mayor of San Antonio in the late 1980s, had claimed he bailed out of an agreement to pay her $4,000 a month. Cisneros had freely admitted to the affair, but he now faces an independent counsel probe into whether he lied to FBI agents before his HUD confirmation about past payments to Medlar...