Word: entrapments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...campaign stop in Athens, Georgia, recently, a woman in the audience tried to entrap Democratic Senate candidate Max Cleland with a liberal-baiting question: Could he explain to Georgia voters his traveling to Massachusetts to campaign for Edward Kennedy? Cleland, a Vietnam War triple amputee, responded that he knew Kennedy through the Senator's son, a fellow amputee, and that he went to praise Kennedy's work on behalf of veterans. By the time he had finished talking, Cleland had transformed a partisan attack into an eloquent speech that hewed closely to the values of his small-town Southern audience...
According to one of Jones' more insubstantial theories, the Oklahoma bombing may have been a government sting operation that got wildly out of hand. Strassmeir, he hypothesizes, may have been an FBI informant who attempted to entrap McVeigh in a phony bombing scheme, only to see his intended victim carry the plan to its conclusion. Two weeks before the bombing, McVeigh placed a call to Elohim City, and Jones believes that McVeigh was trying to reach Strassmeir. McVeigh isn't saying whom he was calling. Strassmeir says in any case no one told him about the call or summoned...
Some might say these facts mesh well with perceptions shared by many Harvard students that the BCC attempts to entrap the vulnerable within its fold...
...charges against her daughter. Another friend adds that she is concerned about possible retaliation by Farrakhan. But Farrakhan seems otherwise inclined. A spokesperson for the Minister said on Thursday that "his heart goes out to the Shabazz family"; another added that "it would be easy for conspirators to entrap this troubled young woman...
...bombing attempt in New York City in 1978. Fitzpatrick and Shabazz were high school pals who remained close over the years, the source told White. At a Chicago news conference, Nation of Islam lawyer Ava Muhammad blamed the feds for targeting Shabazz. "It would be easy for conspirators to entrap this troubled young woman," she said. Shabazz was four years old when she witnessed the gunning down of her father in a Harlem mosque...