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...often said this was an efficient way to pass along money to his heirs, but now at least one of the insurers is balking -- and investigating some of the information the publisher supplied on his applications. Says Richard Bevilacqua, public relations director for John Hancock: "Forbes had a multimillion-dollar policy that was taken out in the last two years. A claim has been filed, but we have not paid it, pending an investigation...
...criminal investigators Telman Gdlyan and Nikolai Ivanov. The two became popular heroes last year after publicly accusing Politburo conservative Yegor Ligachev of corruption; both were elected to parliament last spring. But now they are accused of illegally detaining witnesses and forcing confessions in a six-year probe of a multimillion-ruble scandal involving racketeering and influence peddling in Uzbekistan, which nailed the son-in-law of the late Communist Party boss Leonid Brezhnev, among others...
Under the current plans Memorial Hall's Great Hall would be converted to a new first-year dining hall, freeing the Harvard Union for use as a multimillion dollar Center for the Humanities. Student groups currently in the Memorial Hall basement will be relocated out of the building, which will also house a central kitchen, a performance space and several "leased grills" or eating areas...
...takeover-crazed 1980s, a cheeky business-school dropout named Donald Carter transformed the humdrum job of counting ballots at corporate shareholder meetings into a multimillion-dollar business. As head of the Carter Organization, he orchestrated campaigns to persuade shareholders to back corporate raiders. For his work, he collected ten times the going rate. But the proxy prince scooped up some illegal gravy as well. Last week in a New York State court, Carter pleaded guilty to stealing $1 million from his clients through false billing...
...troika of African states -- with Angola and Mozambique -- that remain most closely aligned with the East bloc, Ethiopia's regime has had scant luck with Marxism-Leninism for some time. More than a year ago, Moscow warned officials in the capital, Addis Ababa, that its multimillion-dollar military-assistance package would be significantly cut when the current agreement expires next year. Since then, the last of several thousand Cuban soldiers have departed, more than one-third of the 2,500 Soviet military and development advisers and their dependents have pulled out, and it is rumored that East Germans...