Word: butz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...players were, not to be cliched, blue-collar. Dave Butz, Daryl Grant, and Joe Jacoby busted their helmets for a win. Of course, some players had flair: Manley and Green were always spectacular, but they were spectacular for the team's sake...
...Football League rushed to show interest in Johnson, the wicked smiles widened. In that industry, street drugs represent only a 30-day rap and steroids remain a private matter. Throughout the big leagues of athletic excellence, just the natural excesses have become awesome. The mammoth Washington Redskins tackle Dave Butz was once asked if the pain ahead, the accumulated remnants of 16 seasons, chilled him. No, but the reports of short life expectancy were worrying. "You can live with a lot of pain," he said sagely, "but you've got to be alive...
...widely expected that the defendants would be acquitted by the three Marcos-appointed judges, so the verdict provoked few demonstrations and no violence. But opposition leaders responded to the verdict with anger. "The (court) just committed triple murder," said Agapito ("Butz") Aquino, 47, the slain leader's younger brother. "Not only did it kill Ninoy and Galman all over again. It also killed the country's judiciary." Said Cory Aquino, refusing to consider the matter of her husband's death closed: "My No. 1 suspect is Mr. Marcos...
...those named as accessories, 17 soldiers, including Aquino's military escorts and Brigadier General Luther Custodio, who was responsible for security at Manila airport, were charged as principals in the conspiracy and ordered held without bail. Herminio Gosuico, a Manila businessman, was named as an accomplice. Said Agapito ("Butz") Aquino, 45, younger brother of the slain opposition leader: "What is lacking is the mastermind...
...opponents to Marcos can command the broad-based political support Aquino might have had, their ranks include such unlikely bedfellows as Jaime Cardinal Sin, the outspoken Archbishop of Manila, and Jaime Ongpin, president of the Benguet mining corporation. Also included are Corazon Aquino, Ninoy's widow, and Agapito ("Butz") Aquino, his younger brother. The opposition draws experience from such veteran Marcos foes as Salvador Laurel, head of the opposition United Nationalist Democratic Organization coalition, and Lorenzo Tañada, 86, the grand old man of the opposition...