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Whites were never required for tennis. But the fact that there was a court and other such amenities, along with a clientele of celebrity convicts like Wall Street finagler Ivan Boesky and Watergate culprit H.R. Haldeman, earned California's Lompoc Federal Prison Camp a reputation as a country club. Set on 42 campus-like acres, Club Fed, as it was called, had neither walls nor armed guards. Its 650 or so mostly white-collar prisoners rose at 6 a.m. to pancakes or oatmeal and worked until 3:30, earning 11 cents to 42 cents an hour (Boesky cleaned the visiting...
...test, which employs a form of learning made famous by Russian scientist Ivan Pavlov, identified 19 of 20 people who had been diagnosed with probable Alzheimer's, said Diana Woodruff-Pak. But it also put seven of 20 healthy subjects in the same category, an error rate that must be reduced, she said...
...extremists on the right and left ends -- whom he termed "people made of reinforced concrete" -- are small in number and impossible to satisfy. But what happens when the leadership itself is divided, as it is in the political triangle made up of centrist Gorbachev, radical Boris Yeltsin and conservative Ivan Polozkov, the new leader of the Russian republic's Communist Party? "Fate has brought these three to such a position that they have no right to be responsible just for themselves," replied Ivashko. "They are all aware of this and will cooperate for the sake of common interests...
...fallen Wall Street arbitrager last week after a Manhattan jury found him guilty on four felony counts of securities fraud and conspiracy. The seven-week trial of the former head of the Jamie Securities stock-trading firm was the latest featuring a former business associate of confessed insider trader Ivan Boesky -- and the first featuring public testimony by Boesky...
...party's rightward slide was signaled three weeks ago when Russian Communists chose Ivan Polozkov, the hard-line party boss of the southern Krasnodar region, as their standard bearer. The right-wing political coup appeared to have caught Russian party reformers by surprise. They had clearly underestimated the depth of resentment in local party organizations with everything from political change in Eastern Europe to schemes for converting military assembly lines to the production of consumer goods...