Word: kamp
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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California Attorney General John Van de Kamp could be forgiven his 20 seconds of melodrama. His state was still reeling from the massacre wrought when a crazed man murdered five children in a Stockton schoolyard, wounded 29 others and a teacher, and then killed himself with a pistol...
...Kamp was making a sobering point: the nation's body count keeps mounting as reckless gunplay continues at an alarming rate. In Bethesda, Md., last week, an emotionally disturbed office worker shot and killed three people and then committed suicide by turning his weapon on himself. An exchange of hard looks in a Woodbridge, Va., high school corridor ended when a visiting teenager shot a student in the groin. A man who was asked to leave a sweet-16 party took his revenge by spraying a New York City subway platform with a 9-mm automatic handgun, wounding...
...Catholic Church dominates a Cleveland working-class neighborhood of shingled two-family homes. On the Sunday before the debate, a sermon resisted change through severe warnings against the twin evils of abortion and recreational sex. "Think about it when you go to vote," admonished the priest. Parishioner Judy Tren-kamp, a photocopier operator, lives with her son in a mock-Tudor house next to the railroad tracks. "Half of this parish is out of work," she shrugs. "I wanted Ferraro to trounce Bush...
...believes that "marijuana should be dealt with more harshly." He can take heart in a new movement to "recriminalize" marijuana in California. Currently, the fine for possessing an ounce of marijuana is $100, payable by mail. A nine-member state commission appointed by state Attorney General John Van de Kamp has recommended legislation to impose steep fines and jail sentences for the possession, cultivation or sale of marijuana, no matter how small the amount. Even if legislatures do not increase the penalties for pot, its devotees should beware. Warns New York City Attorney Gerald Lefcourt: "That doesn't mean...
...time for women to relax. Says Van de Kamp: "In all the ads we emphasize that special moment of time that women want for themselves." Read the ads: "Go ahead. You deserve this Satin moment." The brand holds about .8% of the market...