Word: bian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...make any real effort to censor the program not only impossible but counterproductive-a fact of life about U.S. freedom of expression that even the Saudis acknowledged. Exxon, which spends $5 million a year on public TV and is also one of the four U.S. partners in the Ara, bian American Oil Co., issued a statement that it would be "extremely unfortunate" if the show were to hurt U.S.-Saudi relations, but insisted it would not try to inhibit its being shown by threatening to cut off its PBS spending. Mobil, another PBS angel and Aramco partner...
...Bianchi act cold-bloodedly? Or was he the victim of a Jekyll-and-Hyde dual personality? Psychologist John Watkins, recommended by the defense, put Bian chi under hypnosis and elicited a confession from a sneering Mr. Hyde character who called himself "Steve Walker." But the mystery of Bianchi's supposed multiple personality became irrelevant when he avoided the death sentence by pleading guilty and agreeing to testify against his cousin and alleged accomplice, Angelo Buono. That plea rendered Bianchi competent in the eyes of the law. It also earned him six concurrent and two consecutive life sentences...