Word: latelies
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weekend protests also were the largest in 11 years and coincided with preparations at the plant for low power testing, expected to begin late this week...
...whip Tony Coelho, who had hoped to bump up a notch to majority leader. The Justice Department is reportedly in the preliminary stages of a criminal investigation of Coelho's investment in a $100,000 junk bond sold by indicted inside trader Michael Milken's firm, Drexel Burnham Lambert. Late Friday, after Common Cause asked the ethics committee to determine whether the bond deal was a favor, Coelho could see what lay ahead. He announced that he was quitting his leadership post immediately and resigning from Congress on June 15, his 47th birthday. "I don't intend...
That cleared the way for Richard Gephardt, who has already passed professional, financial and sexual scrutiny as a candidate for President, to run for majority leader. Gephardt had been lying low until Coelho dropped out -- he and Coelho have a noncompete clause in their friendship contract -- so late Friday he was scrambling to get members' home phone numbers to campaign over the weekend. Georgia's Ed Jenkins, an ally of powerful Chicago Congressman Dan Rostenkowski, is another likely candidate. Former Budget Chairman Bill Gray, Arkansas' Beryl Anthony and Michigan's David Bonior will probably fight it out for Coelho...
...Late March/Early April 1989--The committee first discusses Linda S. Wilson, vice president at the University of Michigan...
...snaking its way through lunch-hour traffic in a residential quarter of West Beirut when a parked car loaded with 330 lbs. of TNT erupted in a shattering explosion. Rescuers dashed through the flames to the black Cadillac at the center of the motorcade, but it was too late. "Our beloved Mufti is murdered!" screamed a policeman. The explosion also killed 21 others and injured 75 bystanders...