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...worse, since many critics felt Lacey should have called for an independent prosecutor. Lacey and his staff have labeled their Teamsters report "extensive," but there were numerous leads unpursued and witnesses not interviewed. For example, Ron Carey's brother Carlisle was not questioned; in 1972 he married the widow of an alleged associate of the Colombo family...
DIED. MARY CAPERTON BINGHAM, 90, philanthropist; in Louisville, Kentucky. Moments after acknowledging a Rotary dinner toast by saying, "The best thing would be for a big pink cloud to come down and take me away," Bingham collapsed from a heart attack. She was the widow of media baron Barry Bingham; his death in 1988 was preceded by a family-rending money spat among their children...
...case was never solved, but it cast a shadow over the organization. Last February 68-year-old Kiyoshi Kariya tried to prevent his cult-member sister, a wealthy widow, from giving Aum the building in which his office was located. The sister disappeared, and shortly afterward an Aum member questioned Kariya on her whereabouts. On Feb. 28, four young men jumped out of a Mitsubishi van and grabbed him. He has not been seen since. When police found a similar van with traces of Kariya's blood in it and the fingerprints of sect members, they issued a warrant...
...just a terrible thing that the directors and the outside auditors could have let a thing like this happen," says Velma Morrison, 74, the widow of company founder Harry Morrison and a director herself until 1990. "You wonder where they were, what they were doing that they didn't know what the hell was going...
...American citizen, withholding information about those responsible and circumstances about that murder is not bad policy, it's a crime," said Torricelli in demanding a formal investigation. At issue are the deaths of innkeeper Michael Devine in 1990 and Efrain Bamaca Velasquez in 1992. Bamaca's American widow, Jennifer Harbury, staged a 32-day hunger strike in Guatemala City last fall and began a fast in front of the White House 12 days...