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...deadlocked, 7 to 7, on sending the nomination to the full Senate, effectively killing the appointment of William Lucas, 61, as Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights. Republican committee members denounced the votes as bigoted and based on a double standard. Lucas was turned down, said Attorney General Dick Thornburgh in an angry statement, as a "result of raw politics...
...snakes. Since then the bureau's investigation -- the most extensive ever conducted into any financial market -- has been proceeding, not so quietly, as more than a dozen traders have been pressed into cooperating with the Government. Last week, with FBI director William Sessions and U.S. Attorney General Dick Thornburgh in Chicago for the occasion, the results were finally announced: 46 traders (out of some 6,000) at the two institutions were indicted on charges ranging from defrauding customers to tax evasion to racketeering...
...there's more to come, warned Thornburgh, saying, "This probe is part of an expanding Department of Justice crackdown on white-collar crime in all its various guises, from Wall Street to LaSalle Street to Main Street. The activities uncovered at these exchanges, the largest of their type in the world, cannot be tolerated...
...that drug czar William Bennett's efforts are being undermined at the Cabinet and sub-Cabinet levels by "political jockeying, backstabbing and malaise." Von Raab has warm words for Bush but scorns the President's cautious, pragmatic advisers, including Brady, Secretary of State James Baker and Attorney General Dick Thornburgh. Except for drug czar Bennett and HUD Secretary Jack Kemp, he says, the Bush team is afraid of taking risks and making waves...
...Justice, Thornburgh and his aides take a dim view as well of Von Raab's "Operation Paladin" plan to offer multimillion-dollar bounties for drug kingpins. Officials say Von Raab is "grandstanding" and fear bounties would invite international kidnaping...