Word: archer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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AUTHOR: JEFFREY ARCHER...
Saddam Hussein, at least as he is caricatured in Western demonology, is the perfect comic-book villain for Jeffrey Archer's latest summer-weight thriller. ) What's more, the Iraqi strongman has cooked up a fiendish scheme to humiliate the Great Satan: steal the Declaration of Independence from its place in the U.S. National Archives, and burn it on July 4, 1993, in Baghdad's Victory Square. Horrors! Curses! Zounds...
...since four young football players from the local high school were accused in 1989 of luring a 17-year- old retarded girl into a basement and penetrating her with a broomstick handle and a baseball bat, while a group of friends watched. Last week three of those charged, Christopher Archer, now 20, and 21-year-old twins Kevin and Kyle Scherzer, were found guilty of sexual assault. All four, including Bryant Grober, 21, were convicted of conspiracy...
...lawyer questioned her, told a story full of contradictions and surprising affection for her attackers. Instead of sealing an acquittal, however, her testimony convinced the jury that the girl was incapable of informed consent and that the well-spoken young men sitting in the courtroom should have known better. Archer and the Scherzers could face sentences of up to 40 years. Since their lawyers plan appeals, Glen Ridge may not yet be able to close its wound altogether...
...have done." Ground zero is the House Ways and Means Committee, where lobbyists hover over the 38 members as they yank and pull at each spending proposal. "At Ways and Means, we're looking at the most important six months of the committee's existence," says Texas Congressman Bill Archer, the ranking Republican. "If lobbyists can organize so much turmoil over a little tax loophole, just imagine what they'll do with Clinton's plan...