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DIED. William E. Jenner, 76, ultraconservative Republican Senator from Indiana (1944-45, 1947-59) who was sometimes known as the "Hoosier McCarthy" because of his rabid anti-Communism and fervent admiration for his Wisconsin colleague, Senator Joseph R. McCarthy; of a respiratory ailment; in Bedford, Ind. He opposed the Marshall Plan for European recovery, and collective security measures, including the nato alliance, and in 1950 called General George Marshall "a living lie" and "a front man for traitors." As head of the Internal Security Subcommittee, he conducted a noisy investigation of suspected Communists in the teaching profession...
...been made only for show; the new DEA chief, Robert Lawn, even accused Mexican police of a role in Camarena's kidnaping. With so much sniping across the border, the Mexicans tried to salvage their image. In a national television appearance, Defense Secretary Juan Arevalo Gardoqui declared, "We are fervent and passionate fighters against the (narcotics) traffic...
...soon as the party gets under way, it becomes clear that Brandon's need to prove his superiority makes him betray ever more obvious indications of his guilt. His choice of the nerve-racked Susan (Sue Kelly) as an accomplice, numerous slips of the tongue, and his unusually fervent advocacy of his ideology of the right to murder makes it inevitable that Rupert will suspect he has sired, more than an academic disciple. After inducing Susan to break down for the fifth time in the party--this time by confronting her with the murder weapon (a piece of rope)--Rupert...
...seeks "authentic liberation" through moral teaching that will set in motion forces to bring about change. But, he said, the church has a limited role in solving "concrete problems." If that was less than progressive priests and nuns would have liked, they were nonetheless cheered by the Pope's fervent advocacy of political and economic justice for the poor...
...murder of Popieluszko, a popular and fervent supporter of the banned Solidarity labor union, and the subsequent arrest of the four Polish security officers, had presented the government of General Wojciech Jaruzelski with its most formidable challenge since martial law was imposed in 1981. Jaruzelski's decision to prosecute the men publicly offered fellow Poles an unprecedented glimpse into the workings of the country's secret police and defused, at least temporarily, the explosive anger over Popieluszko's death. There is speculation that the murder was engineered by government hard-liners to embarrass Jaruzelski and his Interior Minister, General Czeslaw...