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- <text id=91TT0061>
- <title>
- Jan. 14, 1991: American Notes:Investigations
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Jan. 14, 1991 Breast Cancer
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 21
- American Notes
- INVESTIGATIONS
- No Cause For Pride
- </hdr><body>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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