Word: april
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wake of the gun-turret explosion on the U.S.S. Iowa that in April killed 47 sailors, the Naval Investigative Service considered a bizarre theory: that Navy petty officer Kendall Truitt may have set off the explosion to collect on a $100,000 insurance policy taken out by a sailor killed in the blast. The story was guaranteed a full airing when Pentagon sources privately confirmed the investigation to the press...
...place on a five-member national governing junta dominated by the Sandinistas, Violeta was soon appalled by the course the country's new rulers were taking: "I began to see an excessive militarism, an exaggerated Cuban presence and less interest in democratic ideas." She resigned from the junta in April 1980 and turned her attention to her paper...
...financial stress worsened dramatically in April last year when city assets were temporarily frozen after East St. Louis failed to begin payment on a $3.4 million judgment arising from the beating of one local jail inmate by another in 1984. The city is now beset with dozens of lawsuits. Firemen have sued successfully to collect three years of back uniform allowances, only to be told that the award left no money in the till to pay their salaries. A bill making its way through the state legislature will erase the deficit in the current budget and finally...
Congressmen can also take in cash directly by giving speeches for honorariums -- a misnomer, since little honor is involved. Consider the $2,000 the Oshkosh Truck Corp. paid each of six members of the House Armed Services Committee on April 1, 1987, for coming to breakfast. The eggs had barely been digested when, a few hours later, an Armed Services subcommittee voted to purchase 500 more trucks from Oshkosh than the Army wanted...
PERHAPS the watershed event of the year--the event which showed students' ability to govern themselves--was that which unfolded at year's end, eventually before headlines nationwide. When the Undergraduate Council voted on April 24 to ask for the return of Reserve Officers Training Corps to Harvard (ROTC), it believed it was performing a service to the 90-odd undergraduate ROTC participants forced to commute to MIT for the program...