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...vault in a note that turned up in the house. "We've been finding things all over," he says, "under the beds, in closets, everywhere." So far, the booty includes a drawing by Paul Revere of the Boston Massacre, papers signed by Louis XVI and Lafayette, and a ring with a lock of George Washington's hair...
Koch, who has 100 aliases, was arraigned this month in Kenosha, where he was charged with bilking a 48-year-old woman out of $10,200 during a 10-day romance. After Koch proposed to the woman and the two went shopping for a wedding ring, she gave him money from a second-mortgage loan. Her friends, suspicious of Koch, hired a private investigator. Shortly after Koch's arrest became public, Kenosha officials began to receive reports from police departments around the country. If convicted, Koch faces up to 20 years in prison in Wisconsin alone for theft and forgery...
...flanks the West Wing entrance just across the lobby from the Oval Office. It is stuffed with color-coded folders marked SECRET, photos of Gates' family on backpacking trips, a Dictaphone, a big secure telephone and a regular White House phone console that often erupts with a steady, insistent ring. "Yes, sir," Gates answers. "Yes, Mr. President . . . I'll get right...
...Every summer has its sleepers. Even to list all the films that might be big this season, you'd need Marty McFly coming back from the future with, say, the Sept. 9 issue of Variety. So let's say The Rocketeer, Disney's no-star action fantasy, will ring the register. And Mike Nichols' Regarding Henry, with Harrison Ford as a lovelorn amnesiac. And Boyz N the Hood, a promising young director's first feature about gang bonding. And -- no, stop! This could take all summer...
Meanwhile the offers ring in like a cash register. His memoirs could fetch seven figures, his speeches $30,000 a pop. He has been mentioned as an ideal football coach (the Philadelphia Eagles) or university chancellor (Texas A&M) or business leader (Chrysler chairman Lee Iacocca is batting his eyes). Van Poole, chief of the Republican Party in Schwarzkopf's home state of Florida, is exercising monumental restraint. "I thought I'd give him a couple of weeks," he says. The hope is to persuade the general to run against popular Democratic Senator Bob Graham. "I've not talked...