Word: jannings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...April 7: Bishop Grace murders two teenage girls in his congregation. On NBC's Quantum Leap, April 7: a scene in which the series' hero is preparing for sex with his live-in lover has Amazing Grace playing in the background. On NBC, In the Heat of the Night, Jan. 31: Rev. Haskell, who dies, had been having an adulterous affair with one of his parishioners...
...unprecedented concession statement, party spokesman Jan Bisztyga told a nationwide television audience on Monday that the "elections were of a plebiscite character, and Solidarity has achieved a decisive majority." Promising that the government would "not back away from the road of democracy and reforms," he called on Solidarity to accept "co-responsibility" for running the country. But Solidarity leaders rejected that astounding invitation to join a coalition government, preferring to remain in opposition and cooperate with the Communists on a case-by-case basis only...
...Nicaragua. Pedro Joaquin's editorials left no doubt that he hoped someday to continue the family tradition. His political outspokenness got him thrown into jail four times, but each time he emerged with even greater popularity, until he became a symbol of the mounting opposition to the dictator. On Jan. 10, 1978, as he drove to work in his red Saab, two shotgun- wielding assassins blew him to bits. Says Jaime Chamorro, Pedro's brother and now business manager of La Prensa: "His death ignited the national insurrection against Somoza. It released 40 years of suppressed rage...
...astounding admission of defeat--two days before the official results of Sunday's voting were to be released--came in a statement at the start of the evening newscast by party spokesperson Jan Bisztyga, who was shown sitting at the elbow of Solidarity national spokesperson Janusz Onyszkiewicz...
Stefania Follini could be forgiven for losing track of time. On Jan. 13 the 27-year-old Italian interior designer descended into a cave near Carlsbad, N. Mex., where she was to live for more than four months as part of an experiment aimed at examining how the stresses of long-term isolation could affect space $ travel. Pioneer Frontier Explorations, an Italian research foundation, had selected Follini, one of 20 volunteers for the assignment, because she was judged to have inner strength and stamina. For 131 days she dwelled alone in a 20-ft. by 12-ft. Plexiglas module sealed...