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...shoes. "I am appalled by the greed," said one nun after her glimpse into the life-style of the rich and famous. "In the palace, I saw all the seven capital sins." Even visitors accustomed to more affluent surroundings were stunned. "Next to Imelda," said Democratic Congressman Stephen Solarz of New York after visiting Malacaņang, "Marie Antoinette was a bag lady...
...cancel the Bitburg visit. The letter noted that SS troops had committed atrocities against American prisoners during the Battle of the Bulge, as well as against millions of Jews, and suggested dryly that "a more appropriate gesture of reconciliation be found." In the House, New York Democratic Congressman Stephen Solarz charged, "This is the most monumental error of judgment by the President since he assumed office." Asked another New York Democrat, Congressman Ted Weiss, "Mr. President, where is your sense of history? Where is your sense of decency...
...House of Representatives earlier this month to cut the Philippines' military aid next fiscal year from a proposed $100 million to $25 million; the amount was increased to $70 million last week. The change in the aid formula was initiated by New York Democrat Stephen J. Solarz as an "incentive" to force the Philippine government into political and economic reforms...
...power. Last week the stronger faction, led by former Khmer Rouge cadre Hun Sen, overthrew "co-Prime Minister" Prince Norodom Ranariddh, who escaped in advance of the tanks. "The international community gave them [Cambodians] a chance to recover from the ravages of civil war," said former U.S. Congressman Stephen Solarz, an architect of the $2 billion U.N. effort that stabilized the country in advance of the 1993 election, "and they appear to have blown...
...Nina Solarz, wife of former New York congressman Stephen Solarz, agreed today to plead guilty to two misdemeanor charges of writing a bad check on her husband's House bank account and improperly taking $7,500 from the American Friends of Turkish Women, a charity she runs. Mrs. Solarz admitted that she knew her husband's House account was overdrawn when she ordered a congressional staffer to write a check for $5,200 in 1990. She is not expected to serve jailtime. Ex-Rep. Solarz, who himself had a large number of overdrafts from the House Bank, was cleared...