Word: ohio
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...SHOULD BE a familiar scene by now. Howard Metzenbaum, the cranky old senator from Ohio, leading his fellow Democrats as they grill the president's nominee. The nominee, sweating bullets, tries desperately to avoid the endless reformulations of the same tough questions...
...recalls, "would make a communist out of anybody." He joined the party in 1927 and spent several years in the early 1930s at Moscow's Marx- Engels-Lenin Institute. When he returned, the brash youngster started organizing workers and getting in trouble. In the Little Steel Strike in Warren, Ohio, authorities charged him with using explosives, and in Minneapolis they arrested him for inciting a riot. In 1940 he was convicted of fraud and forgery in an election scandal and spent 90 days in jail...
...development program. The Justice Department says that B.C.C.I. was Inam's financier, and the U.S. is seeking his extradition. The alarm has spread to other branches of the U.S. government. In a recent letter to Attorney General Richard Thornburgh, Senate Governmental Affairs Committee chairman John Glenn, a Democrat from Ohio, expressed concern that "B.C.C.I. has been providing financial services to agents of the Pakistani government for the illicit purchase of nuclear weapon-related commodities in the United States and in other nations." Glenn urged Thornburgh to pursue "a full examination of such activities...
...Fulcrum, the U.S.S.R.'s hottest jet fighter. A few intrepid customers have signed up for rides ranging from a gentle swing around the airfield to a serious workout at 1,500 m.p.h. The thrills start this weekend at Massachusetts' Westfield-Barnes airport and then continue at shows in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Texas, Kansas and California...
...extreme case that captured headlines last week, a journalist's sources were stripped bare without the reporter even being notified of the search. In Hamilton County, Ohio, a prosecutor ordered a secret electronic snoop through the records of 35 million telephone calls made between March 1 and June 15 from 655,000 southwestern Ohio lines to find any potential corporate leakers who had called the home or office of Wall Street Journal Pittsburgh bureau reporter Alecia Swasy while she was researching stories that embarrassed Procter & Gamble, a major Cincinnati area employer...