Word: formerly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...enforcement officials maintain that fears of rampant intrusions into privacy are exaggerated. "Concern that police or federal agents will be searching everybody's trash is kind of ridiculous," says Federal District Judge Robert Bonner, former U.S. Attorney in Los Angeles. Administration drug czar William Bennett says he was "infuriated" by criticisms last week that the Administration's program relied too heavily on law enforcement at the expense of treatment. Complains Bennett: "If anything like this kind of situation were going on in the suburbs, residents would raise holy hell and say, 'Call in the police!' But if we're talking...
...former National Security Adviser John Poindexter accomplish what Oliver North could not: force Ronald Reagan or George Bush into a courtroom grilling about the Iran-contra scandal? Last week Poindexter's lawyer, Frederick Robinson, insisted that Reagan had ordered the admiral to tell Congress that the NSC staff was not violating restrictions on U.S. aid to the contras at a time when, in fact, it was. He also contended that Poindexter had briefed Bush about each White House meeting on Iran-contra that the then Vice President had missed. If so, Bush's knowledge might be far more extensive than...
...Europe pursues the promise of a more prosperous and safer era, the recent past seems impossibly remote. Only a few years ago, the area's decline seemed assured. Euro-Communists loomed large, Spain's infant democracy was threatened by a military coup, and terrorists operated so boldly that a former Italian Prime Minister was kidnaped and murdered. West Europeans seemed trapped in a twilight zone of economic entropy and declining international influence. After the deep OPEC-induced recession that ushered in the 1980s, millions of workers remained sidelined, victims of an affliction dubbed Eurosclerosis -- a hardening of the business arteries...
...Colombia others paid a high price for Barco's boldness. Luz Amparo Gomez, 29, a former investigator for the attorney general's office who was involved in a legal action against drug kingpin Jose Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha, was driving to her home when gunmen shot her to death. Hours later, the wife of a police major was gunned down outside her home. A day earlier, the wife of an intelligence officer attached to the 13th Brigade, the army unit that has spearheaded the crackdown, was murdered...
...baseball. But all that ended in 1985, when a motorcycle accident left him paralyzed from the neck down. Since then he has lost his zest for living. McAfee, 33, thus petitioned a Georgia court for permission to turn off the ventilator that has been keeping him alive. As the former civil engineer testified in an emotional bedside hearing last month, he woke up every morning "fearful of each new day. There is nothing I have found or can think of that I really enjoy or that has helped my situation...