Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hinz will report to mini-camp May 6-12 to learn the Patriots' system and will start training camp in July...
...draft tough anti- laundering legislation by mid-May. Last week the federal banking commission announced that it will introduce stiff regulations on bank-note trading to prevent drug traffickers and other criminals from using the country's famed secret bank accounts. The commission also published a 28-page report that faulted Credit Suisse, which handled the bulk of the money in the billion- dollar scheme, for inadequately supervising its accounts...
...report last year on the money-laundering affair, Swiss Federal Prosecutor Dick Marty mentioned the Zurich currency-dealing firm Sharkarchi Trading. The company denies any involvement in money laundering. Shortly before publication of the prosecutor's report, Hans Kopp, a prominent Zurich lawyer and husband of Justice Minister Elisabeth Kopp, resigned his positions as a director and vice chairman of Sharkarchi. Mrs. Kopp later resigned after admitting that she had warned her husband of the impending scandal. A criminal probe will determine whether she violated official strictures of secrecy...
Wright's dramatic statement came as the House Ethics Committee was preparing to vote on whether there is "reason to believe" the Speaker has violated congressional rules. After the vote, the committee will publish a report of some 500 pages detailing the alleged violations. The committee will release raw data compiled by counsel Richard Phelan -- the kind of unsubstantiated innuendos that Republicans succeeded in keeping out of the public domain / during the Tower investigation. Wright will have 21 days in which to respond in writing. The committee will then decide if the case requires any action. If it recommends...
...entire House votes, his hold on the speakership would be in peril. Democrats had been urging Wright to launch a pre-emptive defense. Says a House leadership aide: "We were being procedural nerds with our pants drawn up to the armpits saying, 'We have to wait for the report, we have to wait for the report.' Meanwhile the leaks were hurting. We needed something to rally around." History is on Wright's side: Congressmen have been reprimanded and censured before and several Speakers mildly investigated, but no Speaker has ever been ousted...