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June 18, 1998
Volume CVII, No. 20
SPECIAL FUTURE ISSUE
Student 'death' blamed on
'meta-amphetamines'
Two Stanford graduate students were found “dead” in their
loft-style apartment yesterday. Police believe the cause of “death” to be an
overdose of a new and lethal drug, known on the street as “drug-drug,” or
meta-amphetamines.
SEC suspends
top fund owner
The SEC has suspended Jonathan Leeson, the owner of a group of highly successful mutual
funds in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Leeson and his funds will be barred from all trading in
U.S. securities pending further investigation.
‘Spacegate’
scandal rocks Washington
Capitol Hill is still reeling from last week’s revelations that three Texas real
estate brokers have swindled thousands of Americans by selling them deeds to land in outer
space. Total losses to consumers have been estimated at $3.4 billion in dimes.
