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...while last week, it looked like a nice way to reduce the deficit. After a lengthy tax dispute, the Federal Government seized the Mustang Ranch near Reno, the state's most venerable house of legal prostitution. U.S. bankruptcy trustees were aiming to operate the place themselves until they could find a buyer. The IRS says owner Joe Conforte owes $13 million in back taxes. The big bordello -- more than 100 rooms on 360 acres -- could indeed have been a moneymaking proposition for the government. A prospectus showed 1986 revenues of $5.6 million. But late last week a bankruptcy judge nixed...
After graduating, Souter returned home to Weare, N.H., and took a job at Orr & Reno, a Concord law firm. But he was not happy in private practice. In 1968 he took the turn in the road that would eventually land him in the White House chatting with the President, by joining the New Hampshire attorney general's staff. Shortly after Warren Rudman became state attorney general in 1970, he plucked Souter from a group of assistants to become his top aide. The thoroughly scholarly Souter soon became the perfect complement to the gregarious, politically wired Rudman. The two, along with...
...rest of his days: that he and his friend were driven by the lyrics of Judas Priest. "All of a sudden," he said, "we got a suicide message, and we got tired of life." Last week his family and Belknap's mother brought that eerie charge to trial in Reno. Four of the five members of Judas Priest, who perform in metal mesh and studded leather, sat at the defendants' table dressed in business suits and heard themselves accused of murderous "mind control." Said guitarist Glenn Tipton in an interview: "We were shocked. Nothing in the album says...
...runner Brett C. Kimberlin, 36, claims he sold marijuana to Dan Quayle a dozen or so times in the 1970s and even smoked some with the future Vice President in 1971 at a fraternity party in Indiana. Serving a 50-year sentence in the Federal Correctional Institution in El Reno, Okla., for smuggling dope and taking part in a 1978 series of bombings in Speedway, Ind., Kimberlin tried to publicize his allegations four days before the 1988 election. But a funny thing happened before Kimberlin could conduct a jailhouse press conference: he was suddenly slapped into protective confinement...
...make your statement with what you have. Crandall Addington, slim as a whip, whose year-round gamble is oil and gas exploration in South Texas, wears an elegant suit, a diamond stickpin, alligator boots, a neatly trimmed beard and a full-rigged Stetson. Tuna Lund, a huge fellow from Reno who got his nickname from an oceanic losing streak in Carson City, Nev. (a sure loser is a fish, and a tuna is a big fish), just sits at the table looking massive. He hasn't much choice; but if he's winning (which he is, just...