Word: hunted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...group was also apparently done in by Hunt's so-called paradox philosophy, readymade situation ethics that exempted them from common precepts of right and wrong. Last August attorneys for the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission filed suit, charging Hunt and two others with commodityexchange violations and fraud. The suit said the group had bilked 80 outside investors out of $1.6 million, often through schemes that used new investors' money to pay "dividends" to older clients...
...murder case began when Hunt himself became the victim of a scam. Ronald Levin, a wealthy, self-styled free-lance journalist, told Hunt he had put $5.2 million in a brokerage account for Hunt to trade with. Hunt's investment decisions soon made the bundle grow to $13.5 million. When he began pressing Levin for his promised share of the profit, Levin would not pay up. There was no investment account, Levin confessed, only a fake one set up with the broker's cooperation on the pretense that Levin was doing a story about commodities. Hunt did not react kindly...
...Even if Hunt wins acquittal in the Levin case, he and three others face charges of having killed Hedayat Eslaminia, a former Iranian government official and the father of a club associate. Authorities say the group, including Eslaminia's son, killed the wealthy Iranian in July 1984 during a desperate kidnaping intended to extort money for the club. The Billionaire Boys may soon be paying a high price for their investments...
Since he joined the NSC in 1981, North has handled many highly sensitive missions. After the 1983 Beirut bombing that killed 241 U.S. Marines, North led the hunt for those responsible. The chief suspect, however, managed to escape. When terrorists seized the Achille Lauro cruise ship off the coast of Egypt last year, North arranged the midair interception of an EgyptAir jet carrying Abul Abbas, the mastermind of the hijacking, to safety in Tunisia. North helped plan the 1983 U.S. invasion of Grenada and last April's Libyan air raid. It was not surprising that North turned up in Cyprus...
...Texas, moreover, suffers heavily from depressed oil prices, and White had the courage -- some might say the foolhardiness -- to raise taxes twice in an attempt to keep his state solvent. Alabama's Democrats went through such a bloodletting to determine the winner of their primary that Republican Guy Hunt benefited from the fratricide...