Word: reno
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...exercise was code-named Poised Response. Attorney General Janet Reno had invited 200 policemen...to plan how they'd react to a terrorist attack. They consider[ed] four scenarios: a car-bomb attack, a chemical-weapons strike on a Washington Redskins football game, the planting of an explosive device in a federal building and an assassination attempt on Madeleine Albright, the Secretary of State. But the war game quickly melted down into squabbling and finger pointing...
Later in the game, the crowd got to hear sophomore Mickey Kropf stride out to the plate to Johnny Cash’s “Folsom Prison Blues:” “I shot a man in Reno / Just to watch him die…” The moment was as surreal as any you’ll ever witness at the park...
...kingpin. It's the 12th time since he took office last year that Ashcroft has ordered the death penalty when his local prosecutors did not seek it, according to the Death Penalty Resource Council, a network of lawyers who help capital defendants. He's easily outpacing his predecessor, Janet Reno, who in her last five years sought the death penalty 26 times when her prosecutors had not requested it, according to DOJ numbers...
...murder he was convicted of took place a few hundred feet inside national forestland. In Vermont, another state without the death penalty, Ashcroft two weeks ago rejected a plea agreement worked out by the U.S. Attorney with lawyers for Donald Fell, accused of a kidnapping and killing. Under Reno's policy, U.S. Attorneys could work out pleas in death cases on their own; now they must be approved by Ashcroft--for greater consistency, he says. In a recent Maryland case, Ashcroft also directed prosecutors, against their advice, to go for the death penalty against two murder defendants. "There appears...
...political agenda that started in the Clinton administration. Traficant claims that he has been hounded by both minority leader Richard A. Gephardt (D-Mo.)—who has been mad at Traficant for his repeated clashes with Democratic leaders in the House—and Janet Reno, whom, he felt, must have borne a grudge for his insinuation on national television that...