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...among other offenses, Milken fed inside information to a network of traders to manipulate the stocks of his target companies. Prosecutors first snared Dennis Levine, a Drexel investment banker, who pleaded guilty in 1986 to four counts of profiting from insider trading. The Government then got Levine to implicate Ivan Boesky, a Wall Street speculator, who was fined $100 million for insider trading. He in turn agreed to help prosecutors pursue Milken, who had become the ultimate Mr. Big. (Boesky, bearded and gaunt, now resides in a Brooklyn halfway house, where he is completing a three-year prison sentence...
...interest groups, prodding the parliament into action and blocking legislation that contradicted his vision of reform. In short, the new President would be the "iron hand" at the center advocated by both proponents and enemies of radical reform during the transition to a state governed by law. Pravda editor Ivan Frolov says "the idea of a presidential structure was born out of Gorbachev's personality . . . I would vote for Gorbachev with the assurance that he would be elected." But would Gorbachev run for the office as a Communist? Asked that question during a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State James...
...Strathmore Parchment paper? That's what Ivan Boesky used...
...years of news clips and sound bites strung together in barely cohesive fashion. Cut from the 1980 U.S.A. hockey team's "miracle on ice" to a shot of Madonna's "Material Girl" video. Then Ivan Boesky and Michael Miliken. Then pan to a lone Chinese demonstrator staring down an armored division. Then a crowd of drunken kids dancing below the Brandenburg Gate...
...result was U.S. troops quickly knocked out any hope that the 12,000- member Panama Defense Forces might have had of making a coordinated counterattack on invasion night. "The whole infrastructure of our forces was destroyed in the first hour," admitted Major Ivan Gaytan, a top P.D.F. planner. Though some Pentagon planners had anticipated 70 U.S. military deaths, the figure was 23. Noriega's irregular Dignity Battalions raised more havoc than expected with sniper fire and hit-and-run attacks in Panama City streets. But when Lieut. Colonel Luis del Cid, Manuel Noriega's most trusted military aide, waved...