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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Currently serving a two-year term in the federal penitentiary at Lewisburg, Pa., Levine detailed for the court a spending spree that lasted from 1980 until his arrest last year. He paid $450,000 to renovate his eight-room Park Avenue apartment and bought his wife a $15,750 diamond necklace. What about the money unaccounted for? Levine says he lost part of it, about $200,000, while gambling during 27 vacations in the Bahamas. His luck, it seems, began to run out long before investigators caught up with...
...rubles (($75,000)) interest-free to pay for renovating and furnishing this building. We have to pay that back over five years. We got another 10,000 rubles' (($15,000)) credit at 3% interest for start-up costs, but we've only needed 5,000." The loans paid for the restoration and redecoration of an elegant old building in turn-of-the-century style, including damask wall coverings and antique light fixtures. Although the part- time waitresses and kitchen help must be paid salaries no less than they would earn in public catering jobs, Fyodorov says the partners expect...
...friend and classmate of Carter's Alison Buckser told the Journal Carter was "one of the most brilliant people I've ever met" and that if she were dismissed, it would be because she paid more attention to political causes than classes...
...Eastern Europe, which suffered some of the heaviest fallout, the public paid close attention to the trial. Newspapers and television programs carried reports of the proceedings. The accident has even stirred up several nascent environmental movements. In Poland, for instance, an outlawed group called Freedom and Peace opposes construction of a nuclear power plant, the country's first, near Gdansk. Movement leaders have seen the future 400 miles across the Soviet border in Chernobyl, and they are convinced it will not work. The trial at Dom Kulturi is unlikely to reassure them...
...protege and handpicked candidate for President in national elections to be held late this year. It was Roh who had electrified the nation two weeks ago by recommending the program of democratic reforms, including the direct election of the next President, that was later endorsed by Chun. The President paid tribute to Roh "for having made the courageous decision that has given all our citizens a refreshing jolt and has greatly enhanced their pride...