Word: formerly
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David Johnson, former senior S.L.O.C. vice president, was more direct and equally eloquent in responding to the charges. When a TV crew showed up at his door last Monday to ask about his resignation from the committee, Johnson yelled at the woman reporter, grabbed her microphone, kicked the male cameraman and seized his camera. Which is to say, No comment...
...more quickly than that. US West briefly withheld a payment of $5 million to the S.L.O.C., and if the committee is unable to raise $242 million more in the next year, it will face a shortfall on its $1.4 billion budget. The buzzards are circling. Innsbruck and Calgary, both former Winter Games sites, have cheerfully announced that they stand ready to be host of the '02 Games, should their dear friends in Salt Lake be unable...
...CANADA: Former Nova Scotia premier Gerald Regan was acquitted in December on eight sex-related charges alleged to have occurred as far back as the 1950s. Now he will stand trial for allegedly "indecently assaulting" a baby sitter in the 1960s...
JAPAN: Naoto Kan, head of the Democratic Party of Japan, the country's largest opposition group, was alleged in a weekly magazine to have had an affair with a 32-year-old former newscaster. He denied the charge...
JESSE'S WORLD Anyone who feared that former wrestler Jesse Ventura (with his ice-cream alter ego, left) would be an insensitive brute can be reassured that in his early days in office the Minnesota Governor has practiced politics with a very, very personal touch. Some highlights...