Word: jordaning
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Jordan, Minn., is a town of Rockwellian prettiness, nestled amid stands of hardwood trees and rolling bluffs. With its four churches, lagoon park and first-rate public school system, the Scott County hamlet (pop. 2,900), 35 miles from Minneapolis-St. Paul, would seem to be a model American community. But over the past year and a half, the town's idyllic image has been eroded by allegations of widespread sexual abuse of children. In all, 24 adults were charged by the local prosecutor with molesting 37 youngsters. Some of the defendants were couples accused of engaging in sexual activities...
...Jordan's ordeal began in September 1983, when Christine Brown, a mother of five, complained to police that Garbage Collector James Rud had molested her nine-year-old daughter. Rud, who had twice before been convicted of child molesting, soon implicated Brown and a group of other citizens in tales of orgies and sex games with children...
...Graham) and Mayor John Overflow (Ty Christopher Warren) grudgingly release their two captives to assist the oh so devout Amos Behavin (William Nicholas Weit) on a search-and-destroy mission to an alleged witch haunt. The Mortal Inn. (The directions to the inn sound curiously like the route to Jordan's Furniture Waitham.) A few contraception jokes and the ubiquitous stick-it-to-the nearby women's college slam--"A.B. from Harvard, VD from Wellesley" later, the trio arrive at the inn, supposedly the nest of a bevy of premisenous. In fact, this den of iniquity resembles nothing so much...
Goldberg insisted there be an immediate cease-fire. He informally suggested that the cease-fire be coupled with a pullback of Israeli and Arab forces (Syria, Jordan and Iraq had also begun operations against Israel). I advised Fedorenko to try to influence the Arabs to accept. He agreed, but El- Kony was adamant. I thought the Arabs were making a terrible mistake. They seemed to be quickly losing...
...priorities: We're tackling our economic problems and making a good beginning. We're solving the problem in Lebanon. We're warming up our relations with Egypt. (Until those goals are achieved) it will be almost impossible for anyone to bring about a new peace initiative. The problem for Jordan in deciding whether to join the peace process is the Arab world. The Reagan initiative (of September 1982) failed because it did not lead King Hussein to join the process. Jordan will not do what (Egyptian President Anwar) Sadat did--face total isolation, boycott, banning and a loss of Arab...