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...Diversity, Kammen suggests, was one reason why Americans were indifferent to their history. A young, pluralistic nation is united by its future rather than its past. Americans had their eyes focused on the horizon, and history was an impediment to progress. Americans, Abraham Lincoln once said, have "a perfect rage...
...Lincoln Logs? Tinkertoys? An erector...
Financier Charles Keating's 68th birthday was not an occasion for celebration. Instead, a state-court jury in Los Angeles found the former head of California's Lincoln Savings & Loan, whose company sold $250 million in junk bonds to unwitting investors as it headed toward insolvency, guilty of 17 counts of securities fraud. Keating, whose $1.4 million in political contributions entangled five U.S. Senators in the S&L scandal, faces 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. Last month the Senate reprimanded California Senator Alan Cranston for soliciting contributions from Keating while he was ! urging federal regulators...
Other troubles await Keating. He is the subject of a federal grand-jury probe of securities violations, a racketeering suit by the federal Resolution Trust Corporation and a civil suit by former Lincoln investors. His next birthday could find him back in court -- or behind bars...
...what the Federal Government calls Operation Polar Cap involved the 1988 breakup of a $1 billion money-laundering scheme for the Medellin cartel through a Los Angeles jewelry mart. "Saccoccia was in a position to step right in after we knocked out Polar Cap One," says U.S. Attorney Lincoln Almond of Rhode Island. "We were onto him from...