Word: generality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Arkady Raikin went about as far as any comic could when, in the late 1970s, he publicly poked fun at Leonid Brezhnev's bushy eyebrows. A year before Gorbachev came to power a Moscow comedian was banned from television for a year for making fun of an unnamed KGB general. But when Mikhail Zadornov, a Leningrad satirist and television personality, submitted his story to Theater, the editors apparently thought the mock letter was suitable to print...
...Attorney General hangs tough despite growing concern about his conduct among his aides and in Congress. Ethical questions aside, a special prosecutor sees no indictable offense. -- A congressional task force points to an alarming shortage of housing and pleads for federal dollars to build more. -- The Reagans lease a $2.5 million retirement home in posh...
...General Manager: Barbara M. Mrkonic...
...Attorney General in Colombia is about as secure as that of a high- wire acrobat. In January, Attorney General Carlos Mauro Hoyos Jimenez was kidnaped and brutally murdered by henchmen of the Medellin cocaine cartel for advocating the reinstitution of a Colombian-U.S. extradition law. Now his replacement, Acting Attorney General Alfredo Gutierrez Marquez, 63, has resigned. The reason: cocaine traffickers had used an airstrip on a ranch owned by his brother Libardo, 70. Gutierrez may have lacked the right attitude for his job anyway. Three weeks after assuming his post, he suggested that the best way to defeat...
...After a day and a half of deliberating, singing and praying at an emergency session in Springfield, Mo., 206 general presbyters of the Assemblies toughened a three-month suspension originally imposed by the local district council in Louisiana. They ruled that Swaggart must stay out of the pulpit and off TV for a year; even past tapes cannot be aired. Swaggart nonetheless announced that he would return to television on May 22, despite the risk of defrocking...