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- <text id=91TT1831>
- <title>
- Aug. 19, 1991: American Notes:Investigations
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Aug. 19, 1991 Hostages:Why Now? Who's Next?
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 23
- American Notes
- INVESTIGATIONS
- Let's Get On with It!
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- <p> The Senate Select Committee on Ethics is not known for speedyg
- action or exemplary justice. In February the committee closed
- the books on four of the five Senators accused of intervening
- with federal regulators on behalf of failed S&L boss and
- campaign contributor Charles Keating Jr. However, the members
- continued to dither over what to do about the fifth Senator,
- Democrat Alan Cranston of California, who allegedly got $984,000
- in Keating campaign gifts for helping with the Feds. Last week,
- angered at the slow pace of the 18-month probe, North Carolina's
- Republican Senator Jesse Helms released a 247-page report on the
- Keating Five based on a draft by the committee's special
- counsel, Robert Bennett. It recommended that Cranston, 77, be
- censured for "unequivocally unethical" conduct. Cranston's
- office charged Helms with partisan politics, and the panel's
- leaders threatened to investigate Helms himself for leaking the
- report. Enough already!
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- </body></article>
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