Word: formerly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first alert came from Correspondent David Aikman, a former Beijing bureau chief who had returned there from his present base in Washington to help with our coverage. "The army has made a semi-serious effort to break into Tiananmen Square," he reported. "The police launched a tear-gas attack, and a number of people were injured. Unpleasant incidents are taking place. We saw six people carried off. Huge numbers of bicyclists and pedestrians are in the streets. There is a feeling that a serious move may be tried...
Members can also easily talk their way around the $100 cap on gifts from a - lobbyist. Former Tennessee Congressman Bill Boner argued successfully that a camper given to him by the Recreational Vehicle Industry Association was not a gift because he used it on a fact-finding trip. Senator Orrin Hatch received a $7,500 gem-encrusted gold ring inscribed WITH LOVE FROM ALI after the Utah Republican introduced a bill to allow Muhammad Ali and others similarly situated to sue the Government over wrongful draft-evasion convictions. Hatch laughed off any notion that the ring was tied...
...Watergate scandal, repeated efforts at reform have failed because they do not reach the systemic problem. Public officials are now required to file endless financial-disclosure reports, limit the private contributions they accept and wait longer and longer periods of time before they are allowed to lobby their former colleagues. But disclosure works for Congress only if constituents have the opportunity to pore through the voluminous reports and then vote based on what they find there. This welter of regulations has done almost nothing to choke off the cash flow...
...have a way to go. Opposition leaders and some L.D.P. members have criticized the choice of Uno, a former member of the faction led by ex-Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, during whose administration (1982-87) the Recruit Co. helped line politicians' pockets by offering to sell them stock in its real estate subsidiary at reduced rates before it went public. The next chapter of the Recruit scandal may be written when voters go to the polls next month to fill 126 seats in the upper house of the Diet...
...Lipkins' pet pooch, Michael Feinstein plays piano. But the Lipkins and the Hepburn-Saravians, their haughty next- door neighbors, are egalitarians when considering where their next bedmate should come from. By the end of a weekend in the country, two elegant matrons will have been seduced by their former husbands, one of whom is dead. And everybody upstairs will have slept with everybody downstairs...