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...fined the Ferraro campaign $750 for the violation, after accepting the sworn statements of Zaccaro, who served as campaign manager, and the committee treasurer that they had been assured that the loans were proper by David Stein, a former FEC attorney. Last week Stein issued a statement claiming that he informally advised the Ferraro campaign that "I did not believe that it would be permissible" to accept large family loans. Zaccaro and the campaign treasurer continued to stick to their original account...
Muammar Gaddafi is the sworn enemy of Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak, as the prime suspect. Central to this view is the fact that a Libyan cargo ship, the Ghat, entered the northern end of the canal on July 6, then traveled southward through the canal and the Gulf of Suez to the Ethiopian port of Assab on the Red Sea, where it unloaded its cargo and eventually headed back toward the canal. According to Egyptian officials, that round trip should have taken the Ghat about eight days. In fact, it took 15 days. Long before the Ghat left...
...quiet the controversy, the Hatfields turned over their records to the Senate Ethics Committee. Former associates of Tsakos also filed sworn statements to the committee, charging that the financier had tried to buy Hatfield's support for the pipeline. The chronology of events is awkward for the Hatfields: the final check for $10,000 was delivered only days after the Senator wrote a letter to Tsakos supporting the project...
...Senate. She was Rebecca Felton, 87, a veteran suffragist from Georgia. When a Georgia Senator died in 1922, a new man was elected to replace him, but the Governor decided to make a gesture by appointing Felton to the vacant seat until the new Senator could be sworn in. So the Senate suspended its rules for exactly one hour...
Turner hopes the election will give him what he lacks most, a mandate. A former Finance Minister, he was chosen on June 16 to succeed Pierre Elliott Trudeau as leader of the Liberal Party; when Trudeau resigned as Prime Minister two weeks later, Turner was sworn in as head of the government. Turner does not, however, have his own seat in Parliament. He also needs an election in order to impose his personal stamp on the Liberals after 16 years of Trudeau's cerebral and autocratic dominance. Turner's main opponent is Brian Mulroney, 45, leader...