Word: note
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...peppered former CIA Chief William Colby with questions about the rumor -- taken seriously by almost no one else -- that the late CIA director William Casey was not really dead. In August, when former ABC Newsman Charles Glass escaped from terrorists holding him hostage in Lebanon, Rather sounded a jarring note of skepticism, referring to Glass as a "young American who says he was a hostage." ABC Nightline Anchor Ted Koppel called the characterization "beneath contempt...
...face, the idea was ludicrous. Why would anyone send the Attorney General of the U.S. a memo suggesting, in effect, that a crime should be committed? Yet reports surfaced last week that such a note had been sent to Edwin Meese in 1985, shortly after he became the nation's top law enforcement officer. The suggestion allegedly came from E. Robert Wallach, a Meese friend and his former personal attorney. The purported proposal: that a bribe be paid to an Israeli official, perhaps Prime Minister Shimon Peres or his Labor Party, to ensure that Israel would not sabotage a proposed...
First published in the Los Angeles Times, the reports contended that Meese "did nothing" after receiving the memo. The Times also stated that the alleged note had become the "primary focus" of an investigation by Independent Counsel James McKay into possible criminal activity by Meese. The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act forbids any U.S. citizen or firm from bribing a foreign official for business purposes...
...graphic, note that only four of the Crimson's 21 second-period shot attempts were taken from the area between the circles (30 feet out) in towards the goal line. Only one goal was scored, by John Murphy...
...trouble began soon after the Singer clan watched a videotape of John's funeral. Marion's church was badly damaged by an estimated 75 lbs. of dynamite. Nearby, investigators found a feathered spear stuck into the ground with a note that read, "Jan. 18, 1979. John Singer was killed on that date." As seven adults and nine children retreated into the Singer compound, Swapp supposedly told his brother-in-law that he was responsible for the bombing. By telephone, Vickie Singer reportedly declared, "We are going to battle. Yes, there will be death, killing...