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...Lincoln Savings & Loan, so that he could rebut the witnesses who had accused him of staving off a federal crackdown on his troubled thrift by lavishing money on influential politicians. But as the aggressive ex-fighter pilot, Olympic swimmer and pillar of the Phoenix business community was being sworn in before the House Banking Committee, his right hand trembled noticeably. His tanned face flushed, his 6-ft. 5-in. frame slumped, Keating, 66, demanded that television cameras be turned off. Then he spoke: "On the advice of counsel, I respectfully exercise my constitutional prerogative and privilege . . . and decline to answer...
...there were only two choices: hold the third national election in less than a year, or adopt the parliamentary course of last resort, a government of national unity. Last week Greece's three warring political groups swallowed hard and chose the latter. In the new government that was . sworn in last week, conservatives, socialists and Communists are for the first time ever steering the ship of state in unison. The new coalition, which is led by Prime Minister Xenophon Zolotas, 85, a former governor of the Bank of Greece, will remain in office until new elections in April...
...Virginia in the 1950s that men who fancied themselves learned penned some of the last erudite-sounding but morally bankrupt justifications for segregation. And it will be in Richmond on Jan. 13 that there will be a black hand on the Bible when Lawrence Douglas Wilder is sworn in as Virginia's 73rd Governor. It is not only in Berlin that ugly walls and once impassable barriers are tumbling down in a world bright with change...
Acting President F.W. de Klerk, who will be sworn in for a full five-year term this week, followed up with a still bolder gesture. Though all outdoor rallies are banned under the state of emergency, he granted permission for protests in major cities across South Africa and ordered police to stand back...
...relation to the President, Bush served as the Vice President's deputy chief of staff in the Reagan Administration. He has been accused of using his connections to garner some $600,000 in HUD-related consulting fees. In an appearance last month before a House subcommittee, Bush recanted earlier sworn testimony in which he claimed that he barely knew the former HUD officials suspected of handing out federal housing contracts to well-connected Republicans. "I would guess it might be a while before he goes to Luxembourg," says Senate G.O.P. leader Robert Dole. "And then it might be just...