Word: conly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WITH THE POSSIBLE exception of Attorney General Edwin Meese III, New York City Mayor Edward I. Koch more than any other American politician has openly advocated tougher penalties for violent crime. On this issue, Democrat Koch falls for the unconvincing Neo-Con attacks on the criminal justice system...
...policy continues to crumble, conservatives are now scrambling to find a way to justify their clear lack of moral resolve on U.S. policy on South Africa. The latest alternative to sanctions, if a major article in the current issue of The National Interest and stirrings elsewhere on the neo-con front are any indication, is disengagement. This policy, according to author Robert B. Shepard, would proclaim total neutrality and would recognize whatever government remains in power after any expected uprising...
...Rochelle, Secret Service agents arresting three suspects for credit-card fraud inadvertently discovered a letter threatening further poisonings unless the three were paid $2 million. Investigators believed the note was a fraud, an attempt to cash in on a tragic situation, as happened after the Chicago killings, when Con Man James W. Lewis went to prison for ten years for sending a $1 million extortion note to Johnson & Johnson...
...tells viewers that a widow has donated her life savings of $7,000 and comments, "Do you realize what an awesome responsibility it is for me to stand here and encourage people to literally give all they have to God? I'm either the biggest fool and idiot and con man in the world or else I'm plugged into heaven...
...history, sitcom humor and the Old Testament. For the Flood there is conflict, economic disaster and pollution; the part of Noah's Ark is played by the Bahia de Darwin, a cruise ship that shuttles tourists from Ecuador to the Galapagos. There are baggy-pants characters including a Midwestern con man, a widowed schoolteacher, a Japanese computer wizard and a German sea captain. All converge for the Nature Cruise of the Century, an event that promises the company of Jackie Onassis, Henry Kissinger, Mick Jagger, William F. Buckley Jr., Walter Cronkite, Rudolf Nureyev and Paloma Picasso...