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Time it took doctors at the Nil Ratan Sircar Medical College in Calcutta, India to perform what they claimed to be the first ever penis transplant last week...
Senator Alfonse D'Amato, chairman of the Senate committee investigating Whitewater, plans to open new hearings in late October and continue the probe into 1996. "D'Amato basically is stating his intention to carry this into the election year," says Washington correspondent Suneel Ratan. D'Amato has neither set a starting date nor specified which aspects of the land deal he would explore, but Ratan says "the core of what's left is the Arkansas-related stuff," chiefly Madison Guaranty. According to an exchange of letters in September, Ratan reports, independent counsel Kenneth Starr asked D'Amato to drop...
...Reported by Nina Burleigh, J.F.O. McAllister, Suneel Ratan and Karen Tumulty/Washington
Economics correspondent Suneel Ratan reports that there are also a few regulatory hurdles for Levin to surmount: "The deal will have to gain two sets of clearances -- and any problems encountered likely will be a consequence of the arrangement's giving Malone a significant minority interest in the merged entity. One is from antitrust regulators. The second is from the Federal Communications Commission, which would determine if the deal conforms to a maze of rules." Clearing the federal hurdles, Ratan says, could take up to a year...
...federal judge threw out a fraud indictment against Governor Jim Guy Tucker of Arkansas, the most prominent figure snared in the Whitewater investigation of special prosecutor Kenneth Starr. "This is a major blow to Starr," says Washington correspondent Suneel Ratan. "It means that he can no longer go after whomever he wants. His authority is being cut back." Tucker, a Democrat, had been accused of obtaining a federally backed loan under false pretenses and trying to avoid taxes. U.S. District Judge Henry Woods said the charges bore no resemblance to the matters Starr has been assigned to investigate. Ratan cautions...