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<text id=91TT1831>
<title>
Aug. 19, 1991: American Notes:Investigations
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
Aug. 19, 1991 Hostages:Why Now? Who's Next?
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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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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