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...union. But it would also cite top Democratic fund raisers, including TERRENCE MCAULIFFE, who was recently appointed chief fund raiser for Al Gore. A federal probe into Carey's 1996 election as union president found that he and representatives of the D.N.C. set up an illegal contribution swap scheme in which the Teamsters would contribute $10 for every dollar the Democrats steered from wealthy donors into the Carey campaign. As a result, federal overseers nullified Carey's election. A new contest led to Hoffa's victory almost two weeks ago with 55% of the vote...
CONVICTED. DARLENE GILLESPIE, 57, former Mouseketeer; of securities fraud; in Los Angeles. Gillespie was accused of writing bad checks in a scheme to help a boyfriend buy $827,000 worth of stock. She faces up to 90 years in prison...
...atop the human-rights wave right now is Baltazar Garzon, 43, a hard-charging investigative judge of Spain's National Court. Two years ago, he began looking into human-rights abuses against Spanish citizens in Argentina, which were linked to Chile by a scheme called Operation Condor. With this plan, Pinochet and other South American junta leaders pooled their deadliest secret-police units to crush resistance to their rule. Garzon concluded that Pinochet is not covered by the traditional legal tenet, called sovereign immunity, one aspect of which protects national leaders from prosecution. Garzon argues that it does not apply...
...union. But it would also cite top Democratic fund-raisers, including Terrence McAuliffe, who was recently appointed chief fund-raiser for Al Gore. A federal probe into Carey?s 1996 election as union president found that he and representatives of the DNC set up an illegal contribution swap scheme in which the Teamsters would contribute $10 for every dollar the Democrats steered from wealthy donors into the Carey campaign. As a result, federal overseers nullified Carey?s election. A new contest led to Hoffa?s victory almost two weeks ago with 55 percent of the vote...
...diversity and pluralism. They claim a commitment to the protection of minorities. They even have an official policy regarding incidents of racial "insensitivity." It seems reasonable that a concern for insensitivity should extend into the religious realm as well. A majority inclination is surely not enough to justify any scheme of House interior decor...