Word: culprit
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Sometimes the chief is the culprit. Chairman Terence Fox of Iroquois Brands, the Greenwich, Conn.-based maker of Champale malt liquor, was arrested in November after being discovered in a hotel room with $8,000 worth of cocaine. Last year Miller Brewing filed a $19 million civil suit against Robert Landau Associates, a New York City sports-promotion firm that had gone into bankruptcy proceedings in 1984. The brewer, a former client of Landau Associates, charged that President Robert Landau spent $2 million of Miller's promotional money on cocaine, racehorses and other personal expenses. Landau has denied the allegations...
Johnson & Johnson Chairman James Burke is not one to back away from trouble. Appearing last week on the Donahue television program to answer questions about the Tylenol poisoning earlier this month, Burke reacted swiftly when one caller denounced the culprit as a terrorist. In a gesture that was rare for a buttoned-down businessman, he clenched his fist and pumped it in the air, as if to say, "Right on. I agree...
...method, the motive and the culprit behind the latest poisoning all remain a mystery. The FDA has examined almost 500,000 Tylenol capsules from across the U.S. for evidence of cyanide, but has turned up nothing since Feb. 13, when investigators found cyanide in a second bottle of capsules, taken from a store just a few blocks from where the fatal package was sold in Bronxville...
...allies would be hard hit indeed, and that means their citizens would suffer. In the second place, no one has produced any hard evidence for the record that Libya harbors the terrorists concerned here. For that matter, no one has established the terrorists' identity. Israeli officials have said the culprit probably isn't Abu Nidal; their conclusion would appear to destroy Reagan's theory prima facie. And in addition, even Reagan's Defense Department, in its report on the airport murders, didn't blame Libya...
...vague, due in no small part to Reagan's promise of "irrefutable evidence" which has not been forthcoming. Nevertheless, it is clear from the events of the last dozen years that three nations--Iran, Syria, and Libya--are principally responsible for Middle Eastern terrorism. Moreover, Libya is the prime culprit in dozens of terrorist attacks, including last month's. While military sanctions would be most likely counterproductive and a violation of international law, economic sanctions against Khadafy's regime are morally justified. And, as happens only rarely in the interdependent world of today, they might actually curb Libya's terrorist...