Word: blotter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Police Blotter of last week's crimes appears of Page...
...unit's main task will be to uphold the country's revised criminal code, which is designed to make prosecutions easier, and to investigate death-squad murders. The first case on their blotter: the 1980 assassi nation of Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Ro mero. Former U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador Robert White has accused Roberto d'Aubuisson, Duarte's rightist opponent in last month's elections, of masterminding that murder, although the charge has never been proved. "Nobody is going to be above the law in this government," Duarte told TIME. "If Roberto d'Aubuisson...
...formation. Illustrated songs, little three-or four-minute clips, began to rain down on television and clubs in late 1980. Some of them were concert performances, shot and edited with perfunctory flash; others were like surrealistic visual riffs on the song, head comics for beginners, production numbers soaked in blotter acid. A technological catchall, video quickly became a generic name for these detonations of sight and sound, as those little items played on a phonograph were named for the way they were transcribed or recorded...
Thus ended the strange saga of Andrei Berezhkov, the 16-year-old son of a Soviet diplomat, whose brief disappearance for a nocturnal spin in his family's car had escalated from a police-blotter item to a diplomatic showdown between the superpowers. The reason: though he returned home under his own power ten hours later, both President Reagan and the New York Times had that day received letters, purportedly from him, requesting asylum. Kept hidden away by the Soviets for more than a week while they and U.S. officials sparred over how to handle the matter, Andrei finally...
...Police Blotter appears weekly in The Crimson...