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...Condit's hometown (and generally friendly) paper, the Modesto Bee, editorialized on June 8 that "five weeks of silence is enough." Condit "has a duty to publicly clarify his relationship with Levy," the paper said. During a meeting last Thursday, former Democratic Representative Vic Fazio urged Condit to answer questions from the local press...
DIED. JOE MOAKLEY, 74, a 15-term Democratic Congressman from Massachusetts; of leukemia; in Bethesda, Md. South Boston-born and--bred, Moakley often fought for federal funds on behalf of his hometown, cleaning up Boston Harbor and rerouting a major city highway. In 1989 he headed an investigation into the deaths of six Jesuit priests and their companions in El Salvador, a probe that helped end U.S. military aid to that country...
...AGENT Manjarrez knows what it means to want to come to the U.S. His father did it on foot at the age of nine. Victor Sr. illegally crossed into Arizona after traveling 800 miles from his hometown of Te-pic, Nayarit, in west-central Mexico. He had only a second-grade education and spoke no English. "I have a 14-year-old son now," says the border patrol chief, "and I cannot imagine him doing the same thing. [My father] didn't have a childhood, but when I ask him why he did it, he says, 'I didn't have...
...While Clever failed to surpass hometown favorite John Steigeler of Oregon to win the national title, he nevertheless remained the greatest new-rules javelin thrower in Heptagonal history. His meet record of 74.06 meters and his three consecutive league titles has set the standard by which future Ivy javelin throwers will be judged...
...idea of a living wage is convoluted in itself, calculated on loose, not standardized estimates of how much a family needs to earn to live?ith variables like family size, hometown, and the number of wage earners dramatically altering the wage between towns located just next to each other...