Word: roberte
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...defendant, Robert Chambers, 21, is 6 ft. 4 in. and 220 lbs. His victim, Jennifer Levin, 18, was 5 ft. 7 in. and 120 lbs. Yet when Chambers was arrested for killing Levin in August 1986, he claimed that the girl's death was her own fault: she hurt him so badly during a kinky sex act, said Chambers, that he inadvertently struck her, crushing her windpipe. Chambers had met Levin in an Upper East Side bar; later they went to Central Park, where her battered, partially nude body was discovered. The "preppie murder" drew national attention to underage drinking...
DESCRIPTION: strength of George Bush and Robert Dole among likely Republican voters nationwide and in Iowa. Color illustration: Red and purple elephants...
...neither side is required to surrender its nationals to the other, and few observers expect Mexico to do so voluntarily. Most U.S. officials would be satisfied if Camarena's death were avenged by displays of rigorous prosecution on both sides of the border. Said U.S. Attorney Robert Bonner in Los Angeles: "Our first and foremost concern is that justice is done. If justice is done in Mexico, so be it." Unhappily, that is precisely what has not been done by Mexico for the past three years...
While Pittsburgh draws its potable water from the unaffected Allegheny River, some nearby cities and towns on the Monongahela were forced to shut off their river intakes completely. The authorities tried to cope by tapping into the fire hydrants of unpolluted water systems and reopening old wells. Governor Robert Casey ordered out the National Guard to help, and decreed mandatory water conservation with a $200 fine for violators. Most people took the inconvenience good-naturedly. In North Fayette, 17 miles south of Pittsburgh, residents switched to paper plates, postponed the laundry and washed at the homes of friends whose water...
...mayor's respect for the Kennedy family is also said to be behind the naming of the Robert F. Kennedy Elementary School in East Cambridge. And his respect for Joseph DeGuglielmo, a former city manager, is now immortalized at the intersection of Brattle and Mt. Auburn Streets...