Word: wiring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When E.F. Hutton pleaded guilty last month to 2,000 counts of wire and mail fraud involving kited checks, its top officers denied any knowledge of the wrongdoing. A House Judiciary subcommittee last week produced documents that raised questions about Hutton's claim. Among them was a Hutton memo, apparently addressed to Hutton President George L. Ball, describing "disproportionately high interest . . . from aggressive overdrafting with several branches in the Washington, D.C., area...
...ways of the secrecy-loving clan. As reporters gathered outside the office of Munich Architect Jens Hackenjos, young Mengele's stepbrother, Hackenjos sent his wife Sabine, accompanied by Herbert Bauermeister, a free-lance journalist, to inform newspeople that her husband had already handed over Rolf's statement to German wire-service agencies. At his own apartment Hackenjos opened his door just a crack, checked identifications, prohibited photographs and demanded that the handful of journalists he admitted give him receipts for copies of the statement...
...contract is for a few months. Ward asks for a year's deal, since Reagan is probably making $75 a week and can't give that kind of good money up to run back to California on short terms. O.K., agrees Arnow, a year at $200 a week. Ward wires the news to Des Moines. Reagan is near ecstasy. He pours out his heart in a two-page longhand letter to Ward. "Sometimes those last few days seem like something I read in a book, but with your wire to cling to I get back to realization (sic) with...
Meanwhile, MTV and Showtime will be making their Cambridge debut around this time next year'. City Manager Robert W. Healy selected American Cablesystems of Beverly, Mass, to wire the city for cable television...
...called a research center, but the Pakistan Institute of Nuclear Research looks more like a fortress. Layers of barbed wire surround the sprawling complex in the dusty hills at Kahuta, 20 miles southeast of Pakistan's capital, Islamabad. Much of the facility is buried beneath the earth, a precaution against accident -- or perhaps surprise attack. Paratroopers guard the installation, and tanks block all routes into Kahuta. Crotale surface-to- air missiles and antiaircraft guns bristle toward the skies, through which Pakistani air force planes fly round-the-clock patrols. Unauthorized entry to Kahuta is impossible, sightseeing in the vicinity...