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  Donald W. Riegle, Jr. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He was one of the Keating Five, senators who were investigated as part of a Savings and Loan scandal in the 1980s.
His father, Donald W. Riegle, was mayor of Flint, Michigan.
In 1994, he delivered what is commonly referred to as the Riegle Report to the U.S. Senate, asking for further investigation and recourse for war veterans suffering from Gulf War syndrome.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Donald_W._Riegle,_Jr.   (404 words)

  
 dOc DVD Review: Don Giovanni (1979)
Don Giovanni moves on to a servant girl, Zerlina (Teresa Berganza), which does not amuse her fiancé, Masetto (Malcolm King), and the various routes of revenge all come together in a supernatural climax.
Riegle is a bit weak as Don Ottavio, but Te Kanawa more than makes up for it with her passions of different flavors.
A minor quibble is that I found it difficult to tell Riegle and van Dam apart physically, and this led to some frequent rewinding to figure out what was happening with the action; a bigger difference in their costuming would have been useful.
www.digitallyobsessed.com /showreview.php3?ID=3133   (1167 words)

  
 Activist Allard Lowenstein Changed Many Lives
For instance, former U.S. Sen. Don Riegle explained that Lowenstein "had some considerable bearing on my decision to change parties.'' Elected to the House as a Republican from Flint, Mich., in the 1960s, Riegle's office adjoined that of Lowenstein, who served one term as a Democrat from New York.
The two men shared a commitment to the anti-war movement and to civil rights, and Lowenstein convinced Riegle that those causes could be better served within the Democratic Party.
Riegle switched in the early 1970s and was eventually elected to the Senate as a Democrat.
www.commondreams.org /views/032100-106.htm   (892 words)

  
 - toledoblade.com -
FINDLAY - Don Riegle was 17 when a friend of his uncle asked him to help dig a grave for a burial at Lee Cemetery in Amanda Township.
The Riegle brothers, who eventually became the regular gravediggers for 10 Hancock County cemeteries, put away their shovels and backhoe for good last month to spend more time fishing and hunting.
Don Riegle still recalls a tragic summer in the mid-1950s when he helped bury three teenagers from the nearby town of Vanlue who died in accidents.
toledoblade.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20031208/NEWS17/112080118   (639 words)

  
 GWVRP: Document Detail
Don Riegle, the recently retired Senator from Michigan who held hearings on the subject beginning in the fall of 1992, doesn't buy it.
Riegle's study found that 77 percent of the wives of these veterans were also ill, as well as 25 percent of the children conceived before the war.
Riegle's report also confirms that the alarms used in the war to warn troops of the presence of chemical warfare agents sounded thousands of times.
www.gulfweb.org /doc_show.cfm?ID=410   (3930 words)

  
 LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL: NEWS: Presidential outcome affects Nevad...
U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Linda Riegle is quietly waiting to learn whether she will be considered for an opening on the U.S. District Court bench in Nevada.
The nominations of the three others were confirmed by the Senate, but Riegle's nomination did not make it through the process when the Senate was addressing judicial nominations in September.
Riegle was appointed in January 1988 to a 14-year term in U.S. Bankruptcy Court, becoming the first woman to serve on the federal bench in the state.
www.reviewjournal.com /lvrj_home/2000/Nov-14-Tue-2000/news/14818776.html   (463 words)

  
 Social Justice and Faith Magazine in Canada called The Social Edge.com
Early in her new book, Riegle writes that many lay religious communities and Christian peace groups throughout the world are pointing out the connections between war and poverty --and working to eliminate them.
Riegle continues, saying: "What saddened her was people leaving and not doing things to help people.
Although Riegle admits she misses living in community at the Jeannine Coallier Catholic Worker in Saginaw, she enjoys being closer to her grandchildren.
www.thesocialedge.com /archives/gerrymccarthy/3articles-june2004.htm   (979 words)

  
 Now the hard work begins. | Legal > Laws from AllBusiness.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Riegle is quite worried that the combined effect of numerous trends-including the national trade deficit, the federal budget deficit, and more-will put the nation in a financial straitjacket.
sional experience, Riegle cleared the decks of virtually all other business, got permission to beef up the committee's staff, and decided that the rescue package was going to be a bipartisan effort involving all members of his committee.
Riegle acknowledges, but "as we've just seen in the SandL situation, if it turns out that they haven't paid enough, then everybody else is invited to pay.
www.allbusiness.com /periodicals/article/111422-1.html   (648 words)

  
 MCC :: Alumni Testimonials
Teaberry recently returned to the MCC campus to pay tribute to his alma mater on its 75th birthday, crediting MCC with giving him a critical first step in what was to be a remarkable career in higher education.
As Chairman of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee, Senator Don Riegle was at the heart of international economic developments.
A graduate of Mott Community College, Riegle credits MCC with giving him an important start in a career that led to teaching at Harvard University, ten years in the U.S. House of Representatives and 18 years in the U.S. Senate before voluntarily retiring in 1994.
www.mcc.edu /1_whymcc/why_alumni.shtml   (328 words)

  
 Dennis Bernstein - Articles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
According to Riegle, his two-year study identified 18 chemical, 12 biological, and four nuclear facilities in Iraq bombed by the U.S.-led allied forces.
Riegle committee chief investigator Tuite confirms that there is a pattern of missing files and misplaced medical and service records.
The Riegle committee found that some of the materials the Iraqis had in their storage dumps, and which they used to create their CBW capability, came from U.S. corporations.
www.flashpoints.net /GulfWarSyndrome.html   (3951 words)

  
 NameTraq | Last Name: Riegle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Senator Donald Riegle and Representative Henry Gonzalez, who chair the banking committees, "expressed outrage at OFAC's conduct described in the documents and...
The first Republican to do so since Michigan's Don Riegle in 1973, Forbes was then defeated by 35 votes in the primary by a 71-year-old retired school...
The CDFI Fund was created by the Riegle Community Development and Regulatory Improvement Act of 1994.
www.nametraq.org /Jan04/R/Riegle.shtml   (295 words)

  
 The Cook Political Report Weekly Column Archives
Forbes' change in party affiliation from Republican to Democratic was the first in that direction for a sitting House member in over a quarter century.
The last: Then-Rep. Don Riegle in February 1973, prior to his 1976 bid for the Senate as a Democrat.
Interestingly, just months before Riegle switched parties, there was another move from the Republican to Democratic ranks, with New York Rep. Ogden Reid's switch in 1992.
www.cookpolitical.com /column/1999/072099.php   (718 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
(Washington, D.C. 29 March 2001) -- Former Michigan Senator Don Riegle today joined APCO Worldwide as chairman of APCO Government Affairs, expanding the Washington-based public affairs and strategic communications firm's growing list of former members of Congress and executive branch officials, announced Margery Kraus, APCO's president and chief executive officer.
Riegle served 28 consecutive years in the U.S. Congress.
During his Senate tenure, Riegle served 18 years on the Banking Committee, including six as chairman.
www.greyglobalgroup.com /news/032901.html   (309 words)

  
 Courier Electronic Edition: 120103
Bill and Don Riegle finally put down their picks and shovels this month after more than 50 years in the grave digging business.
Don, 68, was the first to get into the business as a teenager by helping out a friend's uncle.
He said he always went back to them because he knew it would mean the grieving family would not have worry about the burial being done right.
www.thecourier.com /issues/2003/Dec/120103.htm   (4450 words)

  
 Role of bioengineering in CFS, GWS & AIDS--Donald Scott interview
So, in the Riegle report, lo and behold, that our research was confirmed.
Yes, well Donald Riegle spelled it out on page 38 of his report when he said, brucella melitensis is bacteria which can cause chronic fatigue, loss of appetite, profuse sweating when at rest, pain in joints and muscles, insomnia, nausea and damage to major organs which includes the heart, the liver and so on.
The mycoplasma is, as you know, a fragment of bacterial DNA and this particular fragment varies with the bacteria from which it was derived.
www.whale.to /v/mazlen.html   (1595 words)

  
 Boaters Dream - Developer seeks to make a land swap   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
To boost his case on Capitol Hill, Kuras has brought Don Riegle, the former Democratic senator from Michigan who was Kuras' college roommate, on visits to congressional offices.
Riegle did not return a call for comment.
Though relatively rare, trades of privately owned land for federal parcels are not unheard of.
www.boatersdream.com /libarticles.cfm?ArticleID=978&CFID=42793494&CFTOKEN=36158353   (589 words)

  
 Public Policy 04/03
Senator Don Nickles (R-OK), chair of the Senate Budget Committee, has introduced legislation designed to reduce the number of asbestos claims by raising the bar for potential claimants.
Former Senator Don Riegle (D-MI) insisted on placing restrictions on the OCC through provisions of the Riegle-Neal Interstate Banking and Branching Efficiency Act of 1994.
As a result of the tough stance of Chairman Riegle, the conference committee report highlighted a few examples in which they found the OCC's decisions to preempt state law to be "inappropriately aggressive" and unwarranted (Conf.
www.roughnotes.com /rnmagazine/2003/april03/04p66.htm   (1081 words)

  
 CIBER NEWS
Don Riegle, Shandwick Public Affairs, Former U.S. Senator
Presentations included a recap of last year’s activities and an overview of faculty and graduate student projects associated with the Center.
Don Riegle, Board member and former Senator, then led a roundtable discussion of how business leaders and educators could introduce change in the process of international business education.
ciber.msu.edu /newsandevents/CIBERNews/cnv7n7.htm   (1448 words)

  
 Germ Warfare Against America: Part IIa - Where Does Gulf War Illness Come From?
Virtually all the shipments, Riegle said, were approved by the Reagan administration's Commerce Dept. between 1985 and 1989 despite long-standing suspicions that Iraq had been involved in biological warfare.
Senator Riegle, the chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, said the committee had recently obtained Commerce Dept. records of export licenses issued to the American Type Culture Collection, an organization in Rockville, MD, that acts as a nonprofit international clearing house for samples of viruses, which are stored at very low temperatures.
Senator Riegle's courageous efforts on this issue, halted in 1994 with his sudden retirement, are now sorely missed.
www.all-natural.com /part-2a.html   (3471 words)

  
 Clift: It’s Time for Dems to Take a Stand - Newsweek Eleanor Clift - MSNBC.com
Former Michigan senator Don Riegle remembers that era well, and sees its echoes playing out in the Iraq conflict.
Riegle was elected to the House at age 28 in 1966 and then to the Senate in 1976.
Riegle came to Congress with President Bush’s father, whom he likes and admires and considers a friend.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/12098907   (1000 words)

  
 Ocean Press Publishers of books on Cuba, Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, Latin America, social change and the CIA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
A two-year study head by US Senator Don Riegle's study found that 77 percent of the wives of GWS veterans were also ill, as well as 25 percent of the children conceived before the war.
A 1996 survey of US Gulf War veterans in the small Mississippi town of McGann showed that out of 267 families questioned, 67 per cent of children conceived after their fathers had returned from the Gulf had rare birth deformities.
A congessional headed by then-US Senator Don Riegle held extensive hearings and issued two reports on GWS, pointing to exposure to low levels of chemical and biological warfare agents as contributing to GWS.
www.oceanbooks.com.au /iraq/articles1/224.html   (1043 words)

  
 News Hounds: Gaga for Spaceshipone
Riegle said Edwards will have to unmask Cheney as the worst VP since Agnew, & drive home the issue of his ongoing ties to Halliburton.
Quinn used the classic FNL locution "some say" as a question to Lazio: "some say Dick Cheney is a huge asset" & Lazio said he's the most experience VP we've ever had.
Lazio also claimed that 2/3 of Al Qaeda is "gone" [comment: does this mean we won't have to hear more reports about the latest AQ "lieutenant" being killed or captured?] When Riegle pointed out that "these guys were asleep at the switch", Quinn gave Lazio the "chance to respond" & he hit the GOP themes.
www.newshounds.us /2004/10/04/gaga_for_spaceshipone.php   (1042 words)

  
 City Pages - Collateral Damage   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
In 1993 Don Riegle, then a Democratic U.S. Senator from Michigan who headed the Senate Banking Committee, began a series of investigations into what was coming to be known as Gulf War Syndrome.
One thing Riegle and others wanted the Pentagon to explain was a report, first made public shortly after the war, that a Czech chemical-detection crew had found traces of the nerve gas Sarin during the early days of the war.
According to the Riegle report, something like 12 biological, 18 chemical, and four nuclear "facilities" (whether civilian or military isn't clear) in Iraq were blown up during the war.
www.citypages.com /databank/16/774/article2428.asp   (4200 words)

  
 Macomb Daily : Sports : 65 years of service, and counting 07/07/04
She also received a congratulatory letter from President George W. Bush for the award, and has earlier letters from President Bill Clinton, Gov. Jennifer Granholm, Reps. Candice Miller and John Dingell, Sens.
Don Riegle, John Glenn and Robert Dole; and Elizabeth Dole, then president of the American Red Cross.
Her most prized letter is likely one from President Harry S. Truman, which probably dates from 1945.
www.macombdaily.com /stories/070704/hom_schultz001.shtml   (865 words)

  
 "A Baker's Dozen Election Lies of 2004" by John Armor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Don Riegle on the Nixon Example: Senator Don Riegle said on Fox News this week that Al Gore ''accepted the Nixon example.'' That he ''allowed'' the election to go to Bush, after the Supreme Court decision.
That is what Nixon avoided, by accepting the results as announced and not challenging possible election fraud in Chicago that gave Illinois and the whole election to John Kennedy.
Bill Brock, the Republican on this segment, asked Riegle ''what he is smoking.'' That was too kind.
www.chronwatch.com /content/contentDisplay.asp?aid=10756   (2185 words)

  
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A KERRY MAN: Former Sen. Don Riegle announces his favorite in Democratic race Tuesday, February 03, 2004 By Steven Harmon The Grand Rapids Press The sign outside the Creston VFW Post 3023 invites the public to a steak dinner Saturday.
But downstairs in the smoky veteran's hall in Northwest Grand Rapids, former U.S. Sen. Don Riegle had another choice in mind for Saturday: U.S. Sen. John Kerry, the Massachusetts Democrat who is trying to run away with his party's nomination for president.
Riegle was blunt -- sometimes profane -- in his Monday address, calling President Bush "by far the worst...
www.freerepublic.com /focus/keyword?k=keating5   (1381 words)

  
 Iraq Reconstruction Task Force - SourceWatch
He is a recognized expert on Middle East trade and commercial affairs, and is a Middle East analyst for Fox News Channel.
Former Sen. Don Riegle, is former chairman of the Senate Banking Committee.
He is an expert in finance and banking, trade and international relations, and maintains close ties with current members of the House and Senate.
www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Iraq_Reconstruction_Task_Force   (594 words)

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