Word: brief
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Vice President, participated in a "sexual tryst" with a longtime assistant? Unsubstantiated gossip about | Bush and Jennifer Fitzgerald had floated among reporters and politicians -- including Bush's staff -- since the early '80s, then escaped last week through a brassy headline in the New York Post based on a brief reference in a new book. "It's a lie," the President responded...
...federal case faces the same challenges as the state trial, including the tendency of jurors to sympathize with police officers dealing with events in the line of duty. And while the indictments brought a brief moment of satisfaction to the still-recovering community, Angelenos are already worrying about the consequences of yet another acquittal and whether the prolonged legal process will be worth it. (See related story on page...
...first question is easier. Why Bosnia? For one thing, because it is a victim of evident, if not altogether naked, cross-border aggression. This may sound like a mincing lawyer's brief, but split hairs have become the tightrope that cases for intervention must tread. U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali lashed out two weeks ago at British critics for faulting his lack of deference to the Security Council's big powers. The West's sympathies for Yugoslavia, he suggested, had claimed priority over equally desperate crises in the Third World. Newspapers in London may have rebuked him, he cracked...
...agents and driven to one of three underground command posts. The PT boat, as well as an ultrasensitive underground command post at his Maryland presidential retreat, Camp David, were secretly maintained by an elite team of officers under the innocuous name of the Naval Administrative Unit. There was even brief consideration given to reconfiguring a Polaris submarine, removing the missile tubes to accommodate an undersea presidential command post...
...officers, Laurence Powell, Theodore Briseno, Timothy Wind and Stacey Koon, made a Brief court appearance yesterday and were released on $5000 unsecured bail...