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Hassell said he would "probably" plead innocent...
...Irene Greek Orthodox Cathedral, which is located in Astoria, a predominantly Greek neighborhood in New York City. The icon, which congregationers say began to shed tears at the prospect of the Persian Gulf war, is valued by the church at $800,000. Church leaders went on television to plead for the icon's return. New York Mayor David Dinkins -- and the Mafia -- joined the appeal. On Dec. 28 the icon showed up in the mail, without the jewels and gold...
...though he added that he believed they died at the hands of their captors. That possibility, unsettling in its own right, is a far cry from the outlandish claims by some members of the MIA industry. Millions of dollars are raked in every year through mailings from organizations that plead for contributions by raising the specter of large numbers of Americans being held in secret prison camps, waiting for rescuers who are being held back only by a lack of funds. Not one of these efforts has succeeded in bringing forward credible evidence of surviving POWs, much less a flesh...
...Washington's largest bank, First American, implicated former Defense Secretary Clark Clifford. As chairman of First American, Clifford had denied that B.C.C.I. controlled the Washington bank; he and his partner, Robert Altman, now face possible criminal indictment. On Dec. 19, prosecutors and liquidators reached an agreement for B.C.C.I. to plead guilty to U.S. racketeering charges; it will also forfeit $550 million to shore up American banks it owned and reimburse depositors and creditors in other countries...
...committee found that Cranston's conduct had been "improper and repugnant," but those were mild words to describe his dealings with Keating. In one instance, a Keating aide gave Cranston $250,000 at the same meeting during which he agreed to plead Keating's case. Cranston insisted that what he had done for Keating was not unusual for a Senator. How many lawmakers, he demanded, "could rise and declare you've never, ever helped -- or agreed to help -- a contributor?" To which Republican Warren Rudman snapped, "Everybody doesn't do it." Perhaps not. But the leniency extended to Cranston suggests...