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...second time that Paul Laxalt, the Nevada Republican and personal friend of Ronald Reagan's, had spoken that day with Ferdinand Marcos, the beleaguered President of the Philippines. At 2 o'clock (EST) last Monday afternoon, Marcos telephoned Laxalt, who had visited Manila in October as a special emissary, with an urgent question: Was it true, as U.S. Ambassador Stephen Bosworth had told him, that President Reagan was calling for a "peaceful transition to a new government" in the Philippines? While the two men talked, Laxalt said later, it became apparent that Marcos was "hanging on, looking for a life...
Time was when it was difficult not to mention the Teamsters Union Central States Pension Fund and federal organized-crime investigations in the same breath. In one case after another, the feds found, the fund served as a cash cow for the Mafia, especially by investing in Mob-controlled Nevada casinos whose profits could easily be skimmed. By 1976 Central States, the largest multiemployer pension fund in the U.S., had nearly $250 million tied up in Nevada gambling operations...
...Governor's addiction to dice. Edwards was as unrepentant about his gambling habits as he had been about the money he made opening doors. "I don't collect coins," Edwards said. "I don't race horses. I like to gamble." Volz contended that Edwards lost $2 million in Nevada between 1981 and 1984; Edwards insisted that he had not squandered anything near that amount. "If I wasn't under oath," he said, "I'd tell...
That includes the football program, which this year boasts a native of Nevada for the first time ever. A larger and more diverse applicant pool has enabled his team to attract better football players, Berndt says...
Under cross-examination, Williams admitted that he had tried to bribe former Nevada Senator Howard Cannon in 1979 to block deregulation of the trucking industry. Williams was convicted of attempted bribery in 1982, and is scheduled to start serving a ten-year prison term next month. He acknowledged that he was testifying in hopes of getting the sentence modified. Asked to explain the contradiction be- tween his admission now and his profession of innocence under oath at his trial, Williams had a simple explanation: "I lied...