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Word: nearing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Deposed Premier Pol Pot, who fled the capital on Sunday, is trying to organize a line of resistance near Siem Reap in north-western Cambodia, reliable analysts reported. The rebel news agency said revolutionary forces control that area, about 320 miles northwest of Phnom Penh...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rebel Troops Backed by Vietnamese Take Over Government in Cambodia | 1/9/1979 | See Source »

CHICAGO, FOR FOREIGNERS and others who have never ventured near the heartland, is Crime City. It has always been. The image was born of such fugures as Al Capone and Leopold and Loeb; it lives on in the person of one John Wayne Gacy. Newspapers thrive on images--especially the sensationalistic kind that can dislocate even a City of the Big Shoulders like Chicago. So when Gacy catapulted past Elmer Wayne Henley, Dean Corll and Juan Corona last month to become the most prolific accused mass murderer in modern history, the story was a big one for Chicago, the biggest...

Author: By Jon Alter, | Title: My Kind of Town | 1/9/1979 | See Source »

...reporters and gawkers staked out his home near suburban Norridge the other side began to come out--the bags of lime he always seemed to be carrying into the house, the noise of construction work filtering out from his basement, the young boys the mailman and others always saw around the house. Someone told the papers about a fire in the garage (where a couple of bodies were later discovered). A nude Gacy, afraid the bodies would be found, ran frantically from the shower to put it out himself before firemen arrived, readers were informed...

Author: By Jon Alter, | Title: My Kind of Town | 1/9/1979 | See Source »

...sold the photo to the paper was fired. On New Year's Eve, both papers ran special sections. The Sun-Times's "Weird World of John Wayne Gacy" featured an interview with a teenage male whore named Jaime who remembered seeing Gacy cruise the gay bars on the Near North Side. Gacy once picked him up in a place called Bughouse Square, and Jaime barely escaped with his life. After such homosexual encounters, the paper reported, Gacy would head uptown to a favored working-class bar called The Good Luck Lounge, where he would drink with his buddies and sometimes...

Author: By Jon Alter, | Title: My Kind of Town | 1/9/1979 | See Source »

...Harvard Business School reveals that unnamed sources have donated $1 million to establish the Watergate Chair of Creative Banking and that Maurice C. Stans will fill the chair for the next academic year. The source of the donation is traced to a small general store near San Diego...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Problems Here | 1/8/1979 | See Source »

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