Word: generality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although the Uzbek affair began unfolding several years ago, the new disclosures seem to mark a new phase in General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev's anticorruption drive. They also highlight his effort to blame former Soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev for the country's continuing economic problems. Brezhnev cronies and relatives are among those implicated; Son-in-Law Yuri Churbanov could face the death penalty if convicted on charges that he accepted $1 million in bribes while serving as the Kremlin's First Deputy Interior Minister...
...leaders of the U. S. Jewish community, which provides Israel with vital financial and political support, grow openly critical of the army' s harsh tactics. -- While Sandinistas and contras meet in San Jose, lobbying intensifies in Washington, and Congress nears a critical vote on rebel aid. -- Colombia' s Attorney General becomes the latest victim of the billionaire drug traffickers...
...General Manager: Barbara M. Mrkonic...
First, Sir Patrick Mayhew, the British Attorney General, announced that for reasons of national security no prosecutions would be brought against a group of Ulster police officers involved in the killing of six Catholic civilians in 1982 and 1983. Dublin had expected an investigation into allegations that police were covering up a "shoot to kill" order. Then British jurists dismissed an appeal by six Catholics from Northern Ireland convicted in the 1974 bombing of two Birmingham bars in which 21 people died. In Ireland, the men were believed to have been railroaded...
...first time he called on Panama's General Manuel Antonio Noriega, in September 1983, says Steven Kalish, he brought along a briefcase containing $300,000 in cash. When the meeting ended, Kalish left the satchel behind. "Noriega called me back," Kalish says, "and said I forgot my briefcase. I told him it was for him, and he smiled...