Word: monsters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Instead, he says, he is a "political prisoner" embarked on a "revolutionary struggle" aimed at killing anyone who represents oppression. In New York, one of the few states that still prohibit capital punishment, legislators are yet again debating the death penalty. The monster is unimpressed. "Willie Bosket is gonna keep striking," he says. "If they / bring back the death penalty, I won't kill. I'll just maim. I want to live every day I can just to make them regret what they've done...
Somebody in the tense corridors of the U.S. Capitol last week called it the "ethics monster," an animal bred and trained by Democrats to feed on sleaze in the Executive Branch over the past 20 years. But the beast has broken loose in Washington and is devouring its congressional handlers. The consternation is palpable...
...media to say he was delighted that the big hearing this Tuesday on his motion to dismiss charges of breaking House rules will be wide open and televised. This after he and his phalanx of lawyers spent ten days fighting to keep the session off the screen. The monster just would not heel. Television will likely encourage...
Coelho was sighted on Capitol Hill one morning having breakfast with Mike Deaver, an early victim of the ethics monster. Was he meeting for advice or commiseration? Coelho, a longtime friend of fellow Californian Deaver, would...
...President proposes constructing more federal lockups, but the real problem is state and local building. -- Congress admits its new ethics rules are discouraging people from taking federal office -- and the "ethics monster" turns on Congress itself. -- A paradox for Western boosterism: Denver voters approve a mammoth modern airport, but Seattle citizens put limits on downtown...