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...Richard Connor, publisher of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, recently charged that Perot in effect tried to blackmail him back in 1989 after the paper ran articles critical of his son's management of the airport. Perot angrily suggested in a phone conversation, according to Connor, that he possessed compromising photographs of a newspaper employee and a city official. Perot acknowledges that he did talk with the publisher, but denies any hint of blackmail or mention of compromising photos...
...Connor said news accounts of an analogous incident from Perot's past helped prompt his public charges. In the mid-1980s, when Perot was feuding with Richard Armitage, then Assistant Secretary of Defense, the Texan tried to convince Washington reporters that the U.S. Defense Department official was in no position to press the Vietnamese on MIAS. Perot's weapon: an old snapshot of Armitage at a party with several men and women, one of whom he alleged was Armitage's Vietnamese girlfriend...
...panel will also include John O'Connor, the head of the National Toxics Campaign; Jeffrey Hollander the president of a company selling environmental products; and Winona LaDuke, a Native American activist, said Mike E. Wall '90 of the Environmental Law Society...
...quickly hauled into court and convicted of possessing child pornography. Last week the | Supreme Court struck down the conviction, ruling 5 to 4 that "the government overstepped the line between setting a trap for the 'unwary innocent' and the 'unwary criminal.' " In a dissenting opinion, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor warned that the ruling would hamper law-enforcement operations. The decision "introduces a new requirement that government sting operations have a reasonable suspicion of illegal activity before contacting a suspect...
...race, in fact, Brown has racked up endorsements from stars like Graham Nash, David Crosby, Tim Nash and Carol O'Connor and has appeared on stage with...