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Something momentous already had. At a single stroke the SEC had written finis to one of Wall Street's most spectacular and controversial careers, built up in little more than a decade. The federal agency had also taken a mammoth stride forward in the insider-trading investigation that first exploded last May, when the SEC filed a civil complaint against Dennis Levine, a former managing director of the Drexel Burnham Lambert investment banking firm, and charged him with illegal trading in 54 stocks. Levine subsequently pleaded guilty to four criminal charges and gave up $10.6 million in illegal profits...
...watercolors of the New England countryside have a very Western, Impressionistic feel. Wu Hung says that while in Chinese art each line is essential, with a certain value assigned to each stroke, he himself is more concerned with color than with form...
Three new pieces of work coming out last week were exciting, agreed Dr. Katherine Bick, deputy director of the National Institute for Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke...
...General, or one of his subordinates must soon decide whether to pursue a criminal investigation of Nofziger. Federal laws prohibit onetime senior employees of the Government from lobbying their former agencies for at least a year after leaving office. Nofziger told the Times he was recovering from a mild stroke in 1982 and did not actually recall his letter to Jenkins. Meanwhile, investigations of Wedtech's ties to influential politicians are under way in New York City and Baltimore; a federal grand jury in New York has called Nofziger to testify. Like Michael Deaver, a fellow Reagan intimate and lobbyist...
...governments have all signed up to participate in Star Wars research. But European leaders like West Germany's Helmut Kohl have other reasons to be glad that the final package was rejected. Kohl and his advisers were surprised by the sweeping nature of the proposals that, almost at a stroke, would have changed the military and nuclear balance of Western Europe. In private, they were frankly relieved that they still had time to look at the fine print of the offers rather than waking up to find they were back in an era of conventional warfare...