Word: johnes
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Keating, the Phoenix businessman who is accused of using Lincoln as a private casino, is emblematic of the nation's $300 billion-plus S & L disaster. But he has no dearth of accomplices. There are the so-called Keating Five -- Senators Dennis DeConcini and John McCain of Arizona, John Glenn of Ohio, Donald Riegle of Michigan and Alan Cranston of California -- who received $1.3 million in contributions from Keating and went to bat for him against federal regulators. The five sank deeper into trouble last week when the Senate ethics committee appointed outside counsel to investigate. The FBI also expanded...
Calm had returned by the time Pope John Paul II appeared. In the first major papal statement on AIDS, the Pontiff called on governments "to develop and carry out a worldwide plan to combat AIDS and drug addiction." He urged patients not to despair and condemned "every form of discrimination" against them. But he warned against "morally illicit" methods of preventing AIDS -- a clear allusion to condoms -- and spoke of "abuse of sexuality," referring to homosexuality, as a cause of the spreading of AIDS. He said the crisis results from "immunodeficiency" in values...
Group members delivered about 900 facsimile draft cards bearing a forged signature of Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) to undergraduate males last week. "You are hereby ordered for induction to the Armed Forces of the United States, for service in El Salvador," the notice read, asking students to appear at the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School...
...When their first-line defense [Joslin and junior Sue Cullinane] was off the ice, we really took the advantage," Providence Coach John Marchetti said...
Leverett House Master John E. Dowling '57 said that he did not know about the heating system shutdown. "No one said boo to me today," he said. "As far as I know there hasn't been a problem...