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WASHINGTON--A former top assistant to onetime Housing Secretary Samuel R. Pierce Jr. cited his Fifth Amendment rights today in refusing to answer "substantive" questions by a congressional panel about the scandals...
...bill, which has been pending in the legislature for 17 years, was then automatically sent to the procedural panel, which had not acted...
Senate President William M. Bulger (D-South Boston) announced the measure would be released tomorrow from the procedural panel--the Committee on Bills in the Third Reading--that has been holding it since July...
...agreed to testify before the House subcommittee investigating charges that his department had a soft spot for well-connected Republicans who garnered huge fees for helping developers land multimillion-dollar federal housing contracts. But Pierce, known as Silent Sam, decided to live up to the name. He informed the panel, headed by California's Democratic Congressman Tom Lantos, that he was canceling his appearance. He said his newly hired lawyers needed more time to prepare...
...carriers faced the prospect of mounting debt, an aviation task force of public and private experts piled new demands on the industry's maintenance crews. The panel called for a $563 million overhaul of 1,900 aging McDonnell Douglas jetliners around the world, including some 900 DC-8s, DC-9s and DC- 10s. The recommendations, which the Federal Aviation Administration is expected to endorse swiftly for U.S. planes, would range from replacing rivets to reskinning entire jets...