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...currently troubled Donald Trump has allegedly paid his Genovese dues, perhaps unwittingly. Last month Trump took the stand in Manhattan's federal court to deny that he knowingly hired 200 illegal Polish aliens to demolish a building in Manhattan in 1980 to make way for his glittering Trump Tower. Members of Housewreckers Local 95, who also accuse their own president in the scheme, allege that Trump was able to avoid making payments that would now total $1 million (including interest) into the union's pension funds. % "You can bet there was a wise guy somewhere in the background," says...
...member PFIAB will be led by John Tower, a former Senate Armed Services Committee chairman. "But Tower is one of the boss's loyalty appointments," says a Bush aide. "After John's drinking problem cost him the Defense portfolio, the President felt he owed him." Four of the other members are among the nation's most competent analysts of scientific information. The only first-rate geopolitical thinker is the sixth member, Foreign Affairs editor William Hyland -- and that's the problem. Concedes PFIAB member John Deutch, an M.I.T. energy expert: "Our strengths run to the technical...
That expertise will come in handy as the $30 billion-a-year intelligence community budget is retargeted to accommodate a changed world. But the community's crucial task in the years ahead, says Harvard Sovietologist Richard Pipes, "will involve the proper interpretation of political, economic and social intelligence." The Tower group "is going to be great when it comes to helping us verify arms reductions," says Moynihan. "But what we are really going to need to know is whether the Soviet Communist Party is going to implode, and how we can compete in the 21st century as other nations play...
...26th floor of the gilded Trump Tower in Manhattan, the brash developer and his lieutenants barricaded themselves behind closed doors last week to meet with a phalanx of worried lenders. Officials from four major banks, who have extended an estimated $2 billion to the developer, are negotiating with Trump to reduce his debt load by stripping down his empire. Investors who hold more than $1 billion in junk bonds that Trump issued to finance his three casinos have seen the market value of their securities plunge by as much as 50%. Bondholders of two Atlantic City properties, the Trump Castle...
When senior writer Paul Gray sat down with Scott Turow in his law office in Chicago's Sears Tower, Gray found the best-selling novelist friendly but also rather circumspect. "He is, after all, an attorney," says Gray. "He measures his words carefully." But when the venue shifted to the comfortable writing den in Turow's home, half-an-hour's train ride away, conversation loosened up. "When we talked about literature, the enthusiasm bubbled up," says Gray. "Turow gets extremely animated when he talks about writers. It was like a college session, with two instructors getting together over...