Word: formers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...account, Rubell told him that Jordan on a visit asked for some cocaine and said he wanted "to get high." Rubell said that the cocaine was provided free for the visiting celebrity by a small-time drug seller named "Johnny C.," and added that Rubell and one of his former employees allegedly watched Jordan use it. Cohn got a taped statement from Johnny C. and then went to the federal authorities...
Brown revealed his new strategy in a series of controversial appointments. In July he named Edison Miller, a former P.O.W. in Viet Nam, to the Orange County board of supervisors. Miller had been formally censured by the Navy Department after an investigation into charges that he had collaborated with the North Vietnamese. But he was recommended by Fonda, who met him when she was broadcasting anti-American messages from Hanoi during the war. She also served as matron of honor at Miller's recent second marriage; Hayden was best...
...three of the primaries in 1976 where he appeared on the ballot. His unconventionality has by now become rather conventional; he is expected to do the unexpected. Behavior that seemed refreshingly uninhibited at first now may strike people as overly opportunistic. Asserts Tom D'Alesandro III, the former mayor of Baltimore who supported Brown in 1976: "He was a mystery then-this unique young man from out of the West who came in on a whirlwind. People now either like or dislike Jerry Brown. The mystery is gone...
Reddy justified his move on the basis that it was the only way to bring in a government with a popular mandate. Former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi had already informed him that she would not support Ram, and without the backing of her 71-member Congress Party branch, Ram would not have been able to form a government. Rarely before had India's parliamentary system been in such disarray...
...government took the cue. It immediately closed down 44 papers and magazines, and expelled five more Western correspondents (bringing to eleven the number deported thus far). In a particularly provocative move, it evicted a leftist Islamic group, the people's Mujahedin, from its headquarters in the former offices of the Shah's Pahlavi Foundation. Mujahedin leaders claimed Khomeini himself had assured them that they could keep their headquarters if they engaged only in normal political activity, but the authorities in Tehran did not budge...