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...critic. Pundits quipped that Smith had paid a hefty "ransom" to free himself from his adversary?a reference to last week's revelations of Perot's financial support for National Security Council efforts to ransom American hostages held in Lebanon. One of Perot's assistants dubbed the GM payoff "hush-mail." Shareholders, meanwhile, were outraged that GM paid about $60?or twice the going market rate?for each of Perot's series E shares. One stockholder, Abraham Duman of Highland Park, Tll., filed a suit against GM, claiming that its directors had violated their fiduciary responsibility by paying such...
Under Gorbachev, news is reported more promptly, but the ideological spin remains. When National Security Adviser John Poindexter resigned, TASS immediately carried an announcement, then added, "In this way the Administration is trying to hush up the scandal over secret U.S. arms deliveries to Iran, which were carried out on the order of the White House." In a report last week, a Soviet TV correspondent in Washington called the Iranian affair "shameless and lawless, even by American legal standards...
...Their off-screen story was every bit as dramatic as any of their movies. It might take the name of one of them: Marriage, Italian-Style. Ponti, then married, had tried keeping his relationship with Loren hush-hush, as his lawyers won a Mexican divorce from his estranged wife, Giuliana. In 1957 the producer and his star were married by proxy in Mexico, with two male attorneys standing in for them. But the Italian government forced the annulment of their marriage and branded Ponti a bigamist. The couple had to live either abroad or secretly in Italy, until 1966 when...
...Crimson zone. Chu tumbled awkwardly to the ice, collided with the boards, and was unable to get up after the whistle blew. She rolled over several times and tried to get to her feet before her right leg gave out and she fell back down, bringing a hush over the Bright Hockey Center crowd of 906. Teammates Lindsay Weaver and Caitlin Cahow rushed to her side and were quickly joined by the team’s trainer and coach, Katey Stone. Chu was ushered straight into the locker room but returned to the bench on crutches for the third period...
...acre site further southwest in Allston.Protestors criticized the Board for what they alleged as insufficient consultation with residents during negotiations with the University.“The board that runs the place won’t let us sit in on the meetings. It’s very hush-hush,” said Gloria Pearlmutter, a Charlesview resident since 1990.“This is about power, it’s about money, and for Harvard, money is power....[Charlesview residents] don’t have money. They don’t have power. They don?...