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...with hearings resuming in Manhattan this week before U.S. Judge Milton Pollack, all sides have incentives to reach agreement. A settlement could strengthen Milken's plea for reduction of his 10-year sentence for securities fraud; he has already served a year. And the FDIC, which represents savings and loans that failed after loading up on junk bonds, stands to receive at least $500 million. The rest of the settlement would go to defrauded investors who participated in the suits...
White, the group's former treasurer, said he intends to "strengthen the group's unity and cohesiveness." He added that he hopes to open new chapters at other colleges in the state...
...crisis has forced Russia to spend scarce U.S. dollar reserves as well as other hard currencies to prop up the ruble. Its commercial exchange rate stood at 70 to the dollar last week, improved from 114 to the dollar the week before. Rumors that authorities may act to strengthen the ruble further have spread waves of panic buying, with Russians forming two-hour lines at banks to turn in dollars for their homegrown currency. At many banks last week, people found to their dismay that rubles were virtually unavailable...
Remember Reagan's giant convention video? Edmonds bets on an equally elaborate homage to Barry Goldwater this year. Honoring the party paterfamilias could help strengthen Bush's shaky right flank -- but look out: the feisty Arizonan also tends to say what he thinks, regardless of the script...
...Republican Congressman Henry Hyde, a member of the House Intelligence Committee from 1985 to 1990, who was apprised of some of the Administration's covert actions, observes, "In Poland we did all of the things that are done in countries where you want to destabilize a communist government and strengthen resistance to that. We provided the supplies and technical assistance in terms of clandestine newspapers, broadcasting, propaganda, money, organizational help and advice. And working outward from Poland, the same kind of resistance was organized in the other communist countries of Europe...