ROSTY CAN BREATHE A LITTLE EASIER

The House Ethics Committee voted yesterday to defer an inquiry into the alleged wrongdoing of Rep Dan Rostenkowski (D-Ill.) at the House Post Office. Republicans in Congress had asked the Ethics Committee to probe Rostenkowski, but federal prosecutors said that this would interefere with their ongoing investigation of him.

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RAY KELLY, New York City Police Commissioner, on the arrest of a New Jersey man in one of the nation's most baffling missing-children cases, the disappearance more than three decades ago of 6-year-old Etan Patz.
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