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JOHN F. FITZGERALD-"Honey Fitz can talk you blind/On any subject you can find/Fish and fishing, motor boats/Railroads, streetcars, getting votes." Those are the words to the ditty dedicated to John Francis "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald, the grandfather of John F. Kennedy and the first in the family to have "the...

Author: By Michael J. Bonin, | Title: From Curley to Kennedy | 10/13/1988 | See Source »

Sessions announced disciplinary action against six agents, including four supervisors. All have had letters of reprimand placed in their permanent personnel files, and three were suspended for two weeks without pay. Sessions also promised to tighten the bureau's procedures. The victims of the FBI fishing expedition have plans of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Washington: The FBI's Sorry Story | 9/26/1988 | See Source »

The dramatic warnings proved unnecessary. Gilbert hit the coast with heavy rains, high waves and winds, but not with a vengeance. Galveston experienced high tides, yet hardly a window was broken. In Brownsville, cars were overturned and mobile homes upended, but there was no loss of life. Those Brownsville residents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It Was No Breeze | 9/26/1988 | See Source »

Poultry farmers, fishing fleets and cultivators of exotic flowers were wasted by Gilbert. Foreign-owned shoe and clothing factories that had been lured to Jamaica's tax-free zones suffered heavy water and structural damage. The unemployment rate, already 22%, was expected to soar as jobs vanished in the wind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jamaica: A Decade Lost in a Day | 9/26/1988 | See Source »

The agreement ends 15 years of land-claims wrangling and clears the way for the social and economic development of an area roughly the size of Texas. Besides land and cash, the native people will receive 10% of royalties from minerals, oil and gas that may lie beneath the tundra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: Deal of the Century | 9/19/1988 | See Source »

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