Then There Was One

The Senate ethics panel spears Cranston but spares the rest

The timing almost seemed designed for minimum exposure, like putting a rerun of Nova up against Cheers. The day the whole world was watching the gulf war end was the moment the Senate Select Committee on Ethics chose to issue its long-delayed report on the Keating Five. The committee found that only the aged, ailing California Senator Alan Cranston, 76, had engaged in "impermissible conduct" in which "fund raising and official activities ! were substantially linked." The case of the Keating One will be referred to the whole Senate for possible action. The other four are officially off the hook.

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