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...roommates and I decided to play a little joke. We made notices with block lettering and posted them all around the dorm. The notices said "WARNING--WE ARE FLUSHING OUT THE PIPES WITH DANGEROUS AND POTENTIALLY LETHAL TUNGSTEN SULFATE COMPOUNDS. DO NOT TOUCH THE WATER UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: No Respect For Practical Jokers | 7/3/1990 | See Source »

...deal with U.S. Attorney Jay Stephens. As his trial approached, Barry had gone to increasingly desperate lengths to stir up support among his mostly black constituents. At one point, he accused the Government of not only entrapping him but also actually trying to kill him with a potentially lethal dose of cocaine. He predicted that he could never be convicted because "in this town, all it takes is one juror saying 'I'm not going to convict Marion Barry. I don't care what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bye-Bye, Barry | 6/25/1990 | See Source »

ETHICS: Death by lethal invention for an ill teacher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page: June 18, 1990 | 6/18/1990 | See Source »

...campaign contribution to his own use, charged the Senate for several stays in a Minneapolis condominium he owned, and used Senate office-building space to make speeches for pay. Next week, barring a negotiated face-saving arrangement, the Senator will begin a two-week public ordeal -- a politically lethal hearing by the Senate Select Committee on Ethics, which has found "substantial credible evidence" that Durenberger broke the rules...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Trials of David Durenberger | 6/11/1990 | See Source »

...definitively and that no territory of Nicaragua be used by others to provide arms support for the F.M.L.N." Baker also asked that Gorbachev pressure Castro: We want a "Soviet commitment to reduce Cuban military and economic assistance as necessary to ensure that Cuba does not increase ((the)) flow of lethal weapons to Nicaragua and to ensure that Cuba does not rearm the F.M.L.N." "Baker called his demarche 'requests,' " Pavlov remembers, "but they were really demands. Malta had taken place as scheduled, but we believed quite seriously that the course of U.S.-Soviet relations was in jeopardy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Summit: Anger, Bluff - and Cooperation | 6/4/1990 | See Source »

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