Word: latelies
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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CHICAGO--Mayor Eugene Sawyer stepped up the pace of his campaign yesterday, buoyed by late poll results showing him closing in on Democratic rival Richard M. Daley one day before a court-ordered primary election...
...difficult paradox: the best material in a journalistic sense very often turns out to be what is most painful to grieving survivors. News organizations, driven by intense competition, rarely let concern for a victim's privacy get in the way of a scoop. The push for live coverage of late-breaking news has put local TV stations in the uncomfortable position of being able to broadcast word of a person's death before the victim's family has been officially notified...
...Mandela football team and youth groups from Soweto schools have been fighting hit-and-run battles for more than two years, and residents of the neighborhood have accused team members of everything from rape to car theft. In late December the gang abducted four young men from a Methodist Church refuge, took them to Mandela's house and beat them repeatedly. One of the youngsters escaped; the team released two others after 2 1/2 weeks; and the body of the fourth, a 14-year-old named Stompie Mokhetsi, was located last week in a mortuary where it had lain unidentified...
...protect them from sexual abuse by the white minister, an accusation that the Methodist Church leadership dismisses as a smoke screen. She insists that the abuse would have been confirmed in court by her physician, Dr. Abu-Baker Asvat, but he was shot to death in his office late last month by two men posing as patients. According to Johannesburg's Sunday Star, however, Dr. Asvat examined the captives at the Mandela house and could have testified that they had been savagely beaten...
...clock was going "cuckoo" even before the trial began. Late last week defense, prosecution and judge were locked in a quarrel over material that Sullivan may want to use right off the bat. He claims that secret documents show that Ronald Reagan and other members of his Administration -- among them Secretary of State George Shultz, Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane, CIA Director William Casey and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General John Vessey -- "personally and directly" took part in arranging deals to have other countries aid the Nicaraguan contras at a time when help from...