Word: georgias
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...series of murders were not enough to remind the city of the disquieting past, Wayne Williams, convicted killer of two of the Atlanta youths, was again in the headlines. Last week USA Today reported that the Georgia bureau of investigation destroyed evidence that it had received from an informant about possible links between the Ku Klux Klan and the child killings. Williams' prosecutors say investigators concluded that the Klan was not connected with the murders. But Williams' lawyers are arguing that the state's "cover-up" entitles their client to a new trial...
Freshman, a History and Government concentrator, recently received national attention for his thesis on the executive clemency of Georgia factory owner Leo Frank. Frank was convicted in 1913 of murdering a 13-year-old girl. Last month, Freshman's thesis helped gain a posthumous pardon for Frank...
More travails lie ahead. Last week a subcommittee of the House Energy & Commerce Committee began to hold hearings on the conduct of accounting firms. Democratic Representative Doug Barnard Jr. of Georgia, chairman of a subcommittee of the House Government Operations Committee, has gone a step further. He lambasted a variety of federal regulators by letter for their performance in overseeing accountants responsible for auditing the books of U.S. banks and thrift institutions. Admits Philip Chenok, president of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the profession's self- regulating watchdog: "These are very difficult times...
...book auction also got a rise out of Georgia's Sam Nunn, top Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee. Ethics laws ban federal officials from using their office for private gain, and Nunn complained that Perle's proposal was a convenient fiction designed to cash in on his Government experience. Perle replied that he does not intend to begin writing or accept the money until he leaves office...
...past two decades, Southern political leaders as divergent as Jimmy Carter and George Wallace have been talking about the need for their region to exercise greater clout in picking candidates for the White House. First, in 1972, Florida held an early-March primary. When Alabama and Georgia climbed / aboard in 1980, the result was what came to be known in the last presidential election as Super Tuesday. Over the past year, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Missouri and Tennessee decided to stage primaries on the second Tuesday in March. Mississippi is expected to follow suit in the next week...