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Recruit was founded as an advertising-sales agency by Ezoe in 1960 with an investment of $2,000. Acting in accordance with his favorite slogan, "Money Comes First in This World," Ezoe built the three-man shop into a corporate behemoth, branching into real estate, supercomputers and restaurant and hotel management as well as a variety of information services. Stock in the expanding conglomerate was closely held until October 1986, when shares in its real estate subsidiary, Recruit Cosmos, were publicly listed on Tokyo's over- the-counter market. Those shares became a new and virtually cost-free vehicle...
According to the report of the three-man board (John Tower, Edmund Muskie and Brent Scowcroft), which interviewed Reagan twice, the President insisted "he did not know that the NSC staff was engaged in helping the contras" from 1984 to 1986, when Congress banned U.S. military assistance to the rebels. But North, a former NSC aide charged with lying to Congress about his efforts to keep the contras intact, hopes to persuade a jury in Washington that Reagan and other superiors fully approved his activities...
...Ansar 3 prisoners who managed to appeal their detention orders have won release. The brief appeals hearings before a three-man military tribunal generally amount to little more than ritual. And so the prisoners will continue to languish in their tents, with little to do but discuss politics. Detention, says Inmate No. 1,231, Kassan Ali, 29, of Gaza, "only strengthens our demand for national rights. Conditions here create more hatred...
...vote. But as the evening wore on, commentators and candidates began talking about a two-man Democratic race, as if Jackson were the pace horse of the piece, running to show, not to win. Even the newly anointed third runner, Al Gore, referred to a race between himself and Dukakis, oblivious to the fact that if it were a two-man race, he would be out of it. When Jackson corrected him, Gore, who needs Jackson more than Jackson needs him, stammered that three-man is what he had meant to say all along...
...Israel's northern border, Israeli paratroopers battled with a three-man guerrilla squad that cut through a fence and planned to attack a civilian settlement, army officials said. A guerrilla and two Israeli soldiers were killed, one guerrilla was captured and another one escaped back to Lebanon...