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Cranston. Bennett claimed that Cranston had not only received $850,000 from Keating for voter-registration drives but also solicited four contributions from the S&L head, often after pleading on his behalf with regulators. Keating even extended Cranston a $300,000 line of credit that he could have used, but did not, in his 1986 campaign...
...emotion completely ebbed now that Europe is remaking itself. Last week in Italy and Belgium, investigators were looking into possible links between the clandestine networks and episodes of right-wing terrorism during the past 20 years. In Rome, Admiral Fulvio Martini, head of military intelligence, testified before a parliamentary committee. Italy's paramilitary group, dubbed Gladio (Sword), had 622 members and 139 stockpiles of arms and explosives hidden around the country, Martini said. When the caches were gathered up in 1972, he added, 10 were found empty. One of them had contained eight kilos of plastic explosive, leading left-wing...
...Whitmire at a community meeting in Acres Homes, a high-crime black neighborhood. Whitmire and Watson are an odd pair, two very different feminist success stories. Dressed in bright colors, the two-term mayor is poised, polished and political. The chief, who in February became the first woman to head a major urban police department, is passionate, very pregnant and plainclothed in a black maternity dress. "The most important job in the police department is not my job," she says, "but the uniformed officer on the street. And right now, unless he has your help, that officer feels stymied...
...million extravaganza of sword fights and fireflies, earthquakes and snowstorms, based on James Clavell's best-selling novel and TV mini-series. In a preview two days before the scheduled opening, as he readied himself to sing the second-act number Death Walk, Casnoff was struck on the head and knocked to the stage by a 30-lb. scenic screen that broke loose from 18 ft. overhead. The performance was immediately canceled. Fortunately, if astonishingly to onlookers, Casnoff suffered only superficial injuries and took just one day off before resuming previews for this week's opening. Some of the metaphysically...
...include some greater form of power sharing. On Friday Yeltsin displayed little tolerance for waiting games. He followed Gorbachev to the podium and warned that the President "must stop making mistakes and clinging to the old system . . . the economic and political crisis in the country has come to a head, the people's patience is coming to an end, and an explosion could occur at any time...