Word: accountability
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Weissbecker said that ratio is taken into account when board rates are set. "We base our budget on the figure that students will take an average of 14 meals. So there is nothing to rebate," he said...
...your Aunt Libby. My Turn, the long awaited tell-nothing autobiography of the woman who "shared a bed with the President" is finally being released. Thank God. I'll need something to tide me over between Roseanne Barr's memoirs and Zsa-Zsa Gabor's sure-to-be-published account of her incarceration...
...least some of the legal bill is being paid out of a defense fund set up by Frank's political aides. Doug Cahn, a spokesperson for Frank's congressional office, declined to disclose the current level of contributions to the fund, saying that the first public report on the account is due at year...
...This account is disputed by Adjua Abi Naantaanbuu, a Memphis barber who acknowledges cooking dinner for Abernathy, King and his assistant, Bernard Lee, on the evening in question. She contends that Abernathy, having fallen unconscious while drinking, occupied her bedroom until about 3:45 a.m., when she and King put an ice pack on his neck to wake him. Said she: "If there was any sex going down in my bedroom, it was by Abernathy himself." The former Kentucky lawmaker, Georgia Powers of Louisville, was at the Lorraine Motel that night but declined to comment...
Many of King's other friends and associates banded together last week to ! demand that Abernathy "repudiate" his account of King's last hours. Among those signing a wire of protest were Jesse Jackson, Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young, and SCLC's current president, Joseph Lowery. They speculated that "to sell books" someone other than Abernathy wrote the offending passages. But Harper & Row spokesman Steve Sorrentino insists that "the book is entirely Abernathy's words." In Memphis on a promotion tour, Abernathy, who has had two strokes and suffers from glaucoma, declared, "I am not a Judas. I have written nothing...