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- NATION, Page 21American NotesINVESTIGATIONSNo Cause For Pride
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- The Senate ethics committee hearings on the so-called
- Keating Five staggered into the final stretch last week with
- cross-examination of Republican John McCain and Democrat John
- Glenn. Of the five Senators accused of granting special favors
- to indicted S&L tycoon Charles Keating in exchange for
- political contributions, McCain and Glenn were considered the
- least culpable by the committee's special counsel. Yet both men
- struggled under tough questioning.
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- A befuddled McCain conceded that he may not have fully
- repaid Keating for private-jet flights taken by his family. And
- a hollow-eyed Glenn solemnly acknowledged writing on Keating's
- behalf to S&L regulators at times when Keating was contributing
- to his campaigns.
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- This week Democrats Donald Riegle, Dennis DeConcini and,
- probably, the ailing Alan Cranston will be grilled in the final
- act of a saga in which none of the five has done himself -- or
- the Senate -- proud.
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