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...congressional probers are investigating: Deaver's role in negotiating a settlement for the Daewoo Corp., a big South Korean steel- maker that violated American import restrictions; his efforts on behalf of Rockwell International to persuade the Government to buy more B-1 bombers; and his lobbying for Puerto Rico to retain tax breaks worth $600 million a year to the island's economy. So far, the investigations have publicly produced no evidence of wrongdoing. They have stirred up some smoke, however, by poking into Deaver's efforts on behalf of Canada concerning the issue of acid rain...
...Puerto Rico, another client, wanted to attack the U.S. Treasury to win special tax breaks. "I said no to that approach," Deaver declared. "I said base the appeal on the President's Caribbean Basin Initiative. No nation has ever proposed doing anything that was wrong in principle. But sometimes they have been wrong about tactics. I help with that...
...that was out of control. Three Navy pilots reported seeing one aircraft turn into a "fireball" and disappear into the ocean about ten miles offshore. The missing crewmen, who were presumed dead after a search yielded no signs of life, were Captain Fernando L. Ribas-Dominicci, 33, of Puerto Rico and Captain Paul F. Lorence, 31, of San Francisco...
Still, the pressure for some kind of reform seems to be strong, if only because RICO keeps turning up in cases that everyone considers preposterous but that the legislative language covers. When Illinois authorities used RICO to sue a gasoline dealer for understating his state sales tax receipts, a federal appeals court ruled with "distress" that the statute was broad enough to allow the suit. In recent years a few federal courts began to balk at the more ingenious applications. But in a 5-to-4 decision last July, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected some of the methods that lower...
...fled Mexico in 1982, after his friend President Jose Lopez Portillo left office. Since 1984 Mexican authorities have sought to get hold of Durazo, who has become a symbol of widespread police corruption. That year FBI agents arrested him when he stepped off a private jet in Puerto Rico. Durazo fought extradition through the U.S. court system, but last week he received a final thumbs-down from two Supreme Court Justices and was sent back to Mexico City to face charges...