Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...headed by none other than Edwin Meese III. "Had this information been available at the time," Attorney General Meese said last week, "President Reagan . . . would obviously not have accepted that kind of support." But evidence of the Teamsters' pact with the devil was known well before 1980. As the report of the President's Commission on Organized Crime points out, "Jackie Presser had . . . an extensive record of organized-crime associations through organizations that were infested with La Cosa Nostra associates and convicted felons...
...scientific endeavors have generated more excitement than research into superconductivity, which could lead to marvels like magnetically levitated trains. But U.S. companies may already be in danger of losing the markets for superconductor-based products. Says Senator John Glenn, who unveiled a new report from the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment last week: "As with semiconductors and videocassette recorders, the U.S. appears on the verge of missing opportunities offered by a new technology based on a science in which the U.S. is the pre-eminent leader...
...EMPIRE OF REASON (PBS, July 13, 10 p.m. on most stations). The big guns of TV news report on the battle to ratify the Constitution as if it were a breaking story. Walter Cronkite anchors for the "Continental Television Network," and William F. Buckley Jr. and Phil Donahue do their thing...
...long, it's been good to know ya. Attorney General Edwin Meese will be gone before the Democratic Convention, Bush sources hope. He'll resign just as soon as he has had a chance to mount a face-saving p.r. offensive against the impending report from Independent Counsel James McKay...
...some 500 weekend rail riders on Hopkins' home computer and part of the 2,000-member association, which also publishes a newsletter. Not surprisingly, the railroads are appalled. In January the Association of American Railroads labeled the hobbyists part of a "dangerous trend." They cite 1987 "trespassing" statistics that report 582 deaths and 673 serious injuries...