Word: houstons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Houston, election night...
Other cities have taken longer to reform. Philadelphia under Mayor Frank J. Rizzo once reputedly ranked with Houston as the most brutal department in the country; the Justice Department cited the entire Philadelphia police force as consistent violators of civil rights. Not until Rizzo left office in 1979 did the city gets its first written policy on the use of deadly force by policemen...
...smaller regional U.S. banks that have ventured into the foreign market are also vulnerable, particularly those in Southwestern states that have extensive dealings across the border. The Valley National Bank of Arizona, for example, has Mexican loans totaling 60% of its equity; at Texas Commerce Bank in Houston the figure...
...astronaut, who was due to be sworn in this week as a Republican Congressman from Colorado; of lung and bone-marrow cancer; in Washington, D.C. Chosen as a replacement one day before unlucky 13's launching in 1970, the civilian astronaut coolly announced, when an oxygen tank exploded, "Houston, we've got a problem," then initiated emergency procedures he had helped develop. Turning to politics, he spent most of his life savings in an unsuccessful bid for a senatorial nomination in 1978, but came back last year to win 77% of the votes in a congressional primary. Swigert...
...President was bound to submit to a subpoena for White House tapes, the eventual release of which led to Richard Nixon's resignation; of an apparent heart attack; near Wimberley, Texas. The son of an Evangelical Lutheran minister, Jaworski built a large and flourishing practice in booming Houston between assignments for the Government, which ranged from serving as a prosecutor in the 1945-46 Nuremberg trials to leading the 1977-78 House investigation in the Koreagate bribery scandal. In his tireless but meticulously fair pursuit of Nixon, Jaworski resisted pressure first from the White House and later from...