Word: john
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...American people decided they could trust Bush anyway and elected him in a near-landslide. But now it appears that such questions concerning the president's judgement were right on target. Bush's nomination of John G. Tower for Secretary of Defense has raised serious doubts among the president's critics and supporters alike...
...despite Bush's claims to the contrary, there was enough truth in these allegations to cause alarm. Even Senator John Warner (R.-Va.), the ranking Republican on the committee, admitted that the FBI investigation into Tower's personal life, which found that he indeed had had drinking problems, cast doubt on the nominee's fitness for such a high-level and sensitive post...
WASHINGTON--Defense Secretary-designate John G. Tower said yesterday that he is not on alcoholic and issued an extraordinary pledge not to take a single drink if he is confirmed by the Senate to head the Pentagon...
...spokesperson John Leyden in Washington said the pilot reported losing power in one right-side engine nine minutes after takeoff and, after turning to Honolulu, eight minutes later radioed he had lost power in the other right-side engine...
UNLESS the Israeli Supreme Court heeds his appeal and overturns his death sentence, retired Cleveland autoworker and convicted Nazi war criminal John Demjanjuk will hang sometime this year for the grisly crimes committed at Treblinka by the notorious "Ivan the Terrible...