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On July 24, the convention named a five-man Committee of Detail to sort everything out and draft a coherent summary of all the votes. It gave the committee nine days to accomplish this, and then adjourned. Washington went fishing for trout. When the committee duly presented its report, the...
Convicted Murderer Benjamin Berry, 31, went to the electric chair June 7, the first person executed in Louisiana in 28 months. Two days later Alvin Moore Jr., 27, executed for a rape-robbery-murder, became the second. Three days after that, Jimmy Glass, 25, convicted of shooting a rural couple...
Where most candidates say the Times has gone too far is its wish to review medical records and FBI files. "We have no interest in waiving privacy rights to allow newspapers to go on a fishing expedition," said John Buckley, press secretary to Republican Congressman Jack Kemp. Dukakis also will...
Some journalists also found the letter troubling. "I may not be able to define perfectly the 'invasion of privacy' in presidential politics," wrote Boston Globe Columnist Ellen Goodman, "but I know it when I see it. This is it." In the Times's defense, Whitney argues that reporting is "one...
Suddenly, in an unambiguous show of support for the rebels, the Indian government of Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, which up until then had been trying to mediate the civil war, dispatched 19 fishing boats laden with food and medical supplies across the Palk Strait to the battle zone. Condemning the...