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...IRAN-CONTRA investigation finally drawing to a close? Midweek, a source close to independent counsel Lawrence Walsh leaked word that the Oklahoma lawyer intends to halt the probe and deliver a final report to Congress. A day later, however, Walsh spokesman Mary Belcher denied the report. "Where we are is exactly as Judge Walsh described on Dec. 24," she said. "We are continuing to obtain and review the Bush notes. No decisions have been made one way or the other regarding further action because we aren't done...
...Overall, I am pleased with our performance tonight," Harvard Coach Kathy Delaney Smith said. "A midweek game, before winter break, is traditionally tough. It would have been easy to overlook tonight's game, but this team didn...
...this isn't confusing enough, consider the shifting target of former miracle worker James Baker. Yanked from the State Department to the White House last August to try to salvage his best friend's flagging re-election campaign, Baker did not come to the Republican Convention until midweek because he was on vacation. Initially, Bush promised that his successful Secretary of State would return to his diplomatic post right after the election; then, to almost everyone's amazement, he reversed himself in the middle of the first debate and announced that no, Baker would become "economic coordinator...
...rate. That did more harm than good, and currency traders resumed dumping lire and billions of British pounds. In London Prime Minister John Major's government, determined to stay with the E.C. system in the face of the pound's continued fall, tried to lure investors at midweek with an increase in the Bank of England's interest rate, from 10% to 12%. Even when, in desperation, the rate was pumped to 15%, speculators went on selling pounds and buying marks. The government gave in, pulling the pound out of the exchange system and canceling its rate increases...
...midweek the Allen empire struck back. His lawyers pointed out, as Allen had, that child abuse is an issue often spuriously raised in custody cases and that the filmmaker had passed a polygraph test on the issue of molesting his kids. Farrow had recently adopted Tam, a blind Vietnamese girl, and Isaiah, a crack baby. "To bring all these children with various disabilities and other factors into the family is of great concern to him," said one of Allen's attorneys, Harvey Sladkus, painting his client as more concerned for the young children's welfare than Farrow...