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...LINCOLN SAVINGS. A federal jury in Tucson awarded $3 billion in damages against Charles Keating Jr. and three co-defendants for swindling thousands of savings and loan investors. The huge award may end up being more a symbol of public anger about the S&L debacle than a collectible judgment. The jury found that developer Conley Wolfswinkel, the Saudi European Investment Corp. and Continental Southern conspired with Keating and officers in American Continental and its Lincoln Savings subsidiary to mislead government ( regulators. Keating, 68, is in prison in California on state criminal charges stemming from the same transactions...
...list of government-approved arbitrators to settle the conflict. Freight railroads restored full service by the end of last week. "I'm sure that members are glad to see that we're getting back to work," said David Turner, chairman of Local 612 of the machinists union, in Lincoln, Neb. "But the only drawback is that it's not resolved...
Today a crew-cut Slater walks Denver's streets in a gray wool suit with a small Klan pin on his lapel. He carries a cocky attitude and a black Samsonite briefcase; inside is a copy of American Nazi George Lincoln Rockwell's White Power. His favorite slogan -- "Equal Rights for Everybody; Special Privileges for Nobody" -- even shows a gift for glib phrasemaking...
Jesse Jackson and other black leaders are organizing a national protest for this Friday. June 19, known as JUNETEENTH, is the anniversary of the day in 1865 when black Texans learned that Lincoln had freed the slaves, and is widely observed as a milestone of freedom. But this year's Juneteenth will be a "day of absence." To mark the continuing burden of racism in America, many blacks will stay home, boycott white-owned businesses and avoid conversation with whites...
Practicing during the winter at country clubs near her home in Lincoln, Mass., deLone spent her summers traveling on the junior circuit and quickly established herself as one of the most promising young players in the country...