Word: johnson
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SEOUL, South Korea--Canadian Ben Johnson was stripped of the gold medal yesterday for his world record-setting 100-meter victory after testing positive for steroids...
...Johnson, the third athlete in this Olympics to be stripped of a gold medal, was flying home to Toronto, leaving Olympic officials shaken and Canadian coaches stunned...
Only three Presidents in this century have had the opportunity to campaign for their Vice President to succeed them. Dwight Eisenhower passed up the opportunity to exert himself on behalf of Richard Nixon, who lost in 1960. Lyndon Johnson was not asked to campaign for Hubert Humphrey, and he lost too. This time both the President and his Vice President feel they have something to gain by sticking together...
ASSOCIATE EDITORS: William R. Doerner, John Greenwald, William A. Henry III, Marguerite Johnson, Stephen Koepp, Jacob V. Lamar, Johanna McGeary, Richard N. Ostling, Sue Raffety, J. D. Reed, Thomas A. Sancton, Jill Smolowe, Richard Stengel, Susan Tifft, Anastasia Toufexis, Michael Walsh, Richard Zoglin...
Memoirs out of Washington lately all seem to have an explosive revelation, the better to have a crack at the best-seller list. Lyndon Johnson's aide Richard Goodwin writes that the former President, near the end of his term, had become paranoid. Former White House Chief of Staff Donald Regan gave us Government- by-astrology; former Reagan Spokesman Larry Speakes told of making up quotes for the President. In addition, recent news stories have reminded the nation of Richard Nixon's ugly displays of anti-Semitism. Now comes Landslide: The Unmaking of the President: 1984-1988 by Reporters Jane...