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...Justice granted a $10 million contract to Inslaw, a Washington-based software company, to adapt its Promis computer program for use by U.S. Attorneys in keeping track of legal cases. Within a year Justice and Inslaw got into a dispute over the terms of the deal, and the department withheld the first $1.8 million worth of payments due the company. Nonetheless, Justice kept the software that had been delivered, and distributed it to the U.S. Attorneys. Inslaw, meanwhile, slid into bankruptcy proceedings...
...club. A neighbor saw them break into the club and called police, who nabbed the two preschoolers. The savvier ringleader escaped through a second-floor window of the youth club, only to be found later cowering under a bed at the day-care center. The child, whose name was withheld, was charged last week with two counts of second-degree burglary, which police expect to drop. His two accomplices, however, were released to the kind of sentencing only red-faced parents can hand down...
...astonishingly, U.S. legislators have been helping keep the red ink flowing. Reason: Congress has withheld from the FSLIC the amounts of cash needed to pay off the depositors of the insolvent S and Ls and thus wind down the problem once and for all. Though the FSLIC has shut down, merged or taken over 108 institutions since the beginning of 1986, the agency has had to allow some of the sickliest thrifts to stay in business through the device of lenient accounting practices. Complains William Black, deputy director of the FSLIC: "We are the only shop that keeps insolvent institutions...
...Friday, state Supreme Court Justice Stephen Crane, the trial judge, refused a defense request to dismiss or at least delay the trial. Goetz's lawyers charged that the prosecution illegally withheld information favorable to the defense from the grand jury that indicted...
...other two victims were from Ontario, and their identities were withheld while relatives were notified, said state police Lt. Mike Wright...