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That made 12 suicides among the targets of Italy's 18-month investigation into fraud, kickbacks and political payoffs. Gardini's name surfaced over and over, as investigators probed a sweet deal in which his firm's share of a joint venture, called Enimont, with the state energy company was bought out for $2.5 billion, vastly more than it was worth. Last week investigators questioning two former Gardini executives reportedly learned that more than $90 million in payoffs may have landed in the pockets of leading politicians, including two former Prime Ministers, who denied the accusations...
White House sources have provided Time with specifics on heretofore undetailed joint U.S.-Vietnamese investigations into the fate of American POWS AND MIAS. In Vietnam, since January 1992, there have been eight joint field searches and 40 crash- or grave-site excavations; also, 422 cases from files and 92 live sightings were checked out. Vietnam and the U.S. have been making searches together in Laos and Cambodia as well; there have been a total of roughly 170 investigations of various types in the former country and 110 in the latter. The high numbers seem to indicate that Vietnam -- recently...
Stoddard, like most of Washington's Nunn-watchers, was assuming that the Senator was putting the finishing touches on a work that was his -- and the Joint Chiefs' -- in all but name. The hearings were seen as Nunn's attempt to trim down the thin veneer of political correctness the President had added to the policy in order to claim an "honorable compromise." As irritated as Nunn might be at Clinton's admittedly tortured distinctions between gay "orientation" (to be tolerated) and gay "conduct" (grounds for dismissal), the betting was that he would merely badger Defense Secretary Les Aspin...
After several rounds of congressional hearings that aired concerns about violence on TV, the four networks last month announced a joint response. Starting in September, they will attach a warning label -- DUE TO SOME VIOLENT CONTENT, PARENTAL DISCRETION ADVISED -- to shows with high levels of mayhem. Over the past two weeks, network executives have trooped before junketing TV journalists in Los Angeles to stress their concerns about violence -- and assert that they aren't the only ones to blame. Next Monday a heavyweight lineup of TV producers, network executives and other industry bigwigs will meet to explore the violence issue...
...policy, which the Joint Chiefs of Staff narrowly endorsed, was a compromise between those who wanted to maintain the military's long-standing ban on gays and those who wanted the ban lifted completely. The president, who had promised to lift the ban during his campaign, said he agreed to the compromise because Congress and the military would not tolerate any stronger reforms...