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The Nation - News from July 4, 1986

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A special three-judge federal court ruled that the Washington Post and New York Daily News cannot have access to federal grand jury testimony considered crucial to the prosecution of former Labor Secretary Raymond J. Donovan on fraud and larceny charges. Donovan, who quit his Cabinet post in March, 1985, and nine other men and two companies have been charged with retaining $7.4 million earmarked for minority subcontractors in a New York City subway tunnel project in 1979. All have denied wrongdoing.

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