Word: pensioners
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...April, with 17,000 deaths. At least 130,000 remain incarcerated. How bad are the camps? A Bosnian report, possibly exaggerated, tells of the Vuk Karadzic primary school in Bratunac, where Serbs are accused of bleeding 500 Muslims to death so wounded Serbs could get transfusions; at a cafe- pension named Sonje in the town of Vogosca, a Serb group led by one Jovan Tintor was said to have hanged prisoners by the legs and gouged out their eyes with special hooks. Serbs deny such stories and countercharge that Muslims and Croats are running 40 camps of their own where...
Kevin and Ian Maxwell, sons and business associates of the late publishing czar Robert Maxwell, had trouble enough already. Kevin was indicted for conspiracy to defraud banks and for stealing from the pension funds of his father's employees, while Ian was hit for bank fraud. Now a British court has assessed Kevin $778 million in damages for his actions as a director of the firm that managed the funds. Ian's penalty is pending...
...Representatives, Jack Russ was any Congressman's best friend. For nearly 25 years he doled out pork, fixed parking tickets and covered bad checks at the House bank. But when the bank's irregularities came to light, Russ resigned, making himself ineligible for a $70,000-a-year pension -- at least until Representative Mervyn Dymally of California put Russ back on the payroll as his "adviser." Now Russ can get full health benefits and his pension...
Zharikov's husband, Vyacheslav, 56, whose respiratory illness forced him to take early retirement from his job as a sanitary engineer, cannot draw a pension until he is 60. He says the couple might even have expanded their brood if it weren't for the soaring inflation that has come with market reforms. "We didn't know our life would come to this, that the system would change," he says. The huge five-room flat, for which the family pays 162 rubles a month, is in desperate need of renovation. Nine rickety cots, a small table and a few chairs...
...early-morning sweeps, London police arrested Kevin and Ian Maxwell, sons of disgraced tycoon Robert Maxwell, and his former financial adviser, Larry Trachtenberg. The three face a total of 15 charges of theft and conspiracy to defraud involving $260 million ((pounds)140 million), some from pension funds. The alleged offenses took place in the months before and just after Maxwell's death...