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When Dardis recounts Fitzgerald's early history, he alleges that his father Edward Fitzgerald was also an alcoholic. He never supports this allegation, but that does not seem to matter to him. In reference to an event in 1908, he glibly writes...
...employees of Wichita-based Koch Industries transferring oil from Osage tribal storage tanks to trucks. According to witnesses, Koch employees typically reported removing only 100 bbl. of oil for every 101 bbl. actually taken. Arizona's Democratic Senator Dennis DeConcini, chairman of the committee, said he would refer the matter to the Justice Department for possible prosecution...
...actually victims of petty local vendettas. In the Soviet Union informing on one's fellow man was taken so far that Pavlik Morozov became a national hero for ratting on his father. And all across the socialist world workers were repeatedly assured that they need not fear -- that no matter how little they worked, no one would live better than they...
...scene, no matter how often it is played back in the mind, still shocks and horrifies. At the end of a rally of opposition forces protesting the blatant exercise of electoral larceny in Panama, a band of T-shirted men suddenly appeared carrying wooden clubs and metal pipes. With grotesque inappropriateness, they styled themselves the Dignity Battalion. As troops of the Panama Defense Force nonchalantly looked on, the thugs closed in on the victorious trio who three days earlier had easily defeated the handpicked candidates of Panamanian General Manuel Antonio Noriega for the posts of President and First and Second...
Other Noriega confidants speculated that the general might be willing to step down -- provided Washington drops its drug indictments against him. That is a condition that Reagan accepted a year ago but that Bush has rejected. Noriega may attempt to reopen negotiations with the U.S. on that matter, if only to buy time. Unless a solution can be found quickly, Bush, like Reagan, could find himself sinking ever deeper into a frustrating brawl with a dictator whom few care for but no one knows...