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...would cause China's leadership to rattle its sabers at the island, as it did in 1996, almost certainly drawing the U.S. into a conflict. Next shoe: Beijing, which holds about $100 billion in U.S. Treasury securities, largely as a result of its huge trade surplus, could threaten to unload them, causing a major downturn in U.S. financial markets...
...light a Cuban every night, pour a glass of cognac and repair to the cellar to admire his own private collection of hot masterpieces? Were they stolen by political factions to trade for their prisoners? Or was this just a score by local bad guys who thought they could unload the paintings to a fence, or use them as collateral in a drug deal, or trade them for reduced sentences on other crimes...
Connor says that while he served a prison term in the '60s, the Donati clan kept watch on his mother, and to return the favor, he tried to help them unload some Wyeth paintings stolen from the Woolworth estate in Monmouth, Me. With that, a career was born. Connor's father had been an antique-weapon collector; his mother painted and wrote poetry; and Connor, who already had a cherished collection of Japanese swords, had truly found his niche. But he kept slipping up. In July 1990 a federal judge who doubled the requested sentence called Connor "rotten...
...Military Science was formed last September and has 41 branches across the country. It seems to have garnered a great deal of support from Russia's underpaid and underfed servicemen. His mysterious "rehearsal" call issued Sunday --including the enigmatic statement that he even has "a team ready to unload a freight carriage at night" -- is being widely attacked, but taken seriously. Perhaps President Yeltsin should pencil in that February date...
...restaurant, with its estimated 260-person capacity, will be housed at the Galleria's main entrance, where shoppers taking the free shuttle from Kendall Square unload and embark on their journey through the mall...