Word: rumors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Kenya's Maathai is facing trial on charges of publishing "a false rumor which is likely to alarm the public," namely that the Moi government was planning to hand over power to the military. Last month, during a protest by fasting mothers of political prisoners, she was tear-gassed and clubbed unconscious by police. In January more than 100 police officers swarmed her house in Nairobi and arrested her. A night in jail with no mattress or blankets so aggravated her rheumatism that she was hospitalized for several days after her release...
...only trouble with Reed's sensational tale is that not a word of it is true. That inconvenient fact has not stopped a busy rumor mill in Arkansas from cranking out ever more preposterous allegations, nor has it prevented some credulous journalists, including Andrew Cockburn, a columnist for the Nation, from using Reed as a source for absurdly speculative accounts. None of those who are taking Reed's wild stories seriously seem to have asked why Clinton, a vocal critic of U.S. aid to the contras who even then was considering running for President, would have done risky favors...
Ashe, 48, found out about the infection in 1988. Until last week he kept quiet, figuring that, unlike basketball superstar Magic Johnson, he was no longer a public figure. But USA Today approached him to confirm what had until then been a rumor, and Ashe reluctantly spoke...
...search of productive employment. I mean long ago, when citizens sent off their tax forms marked "sealed with a kiss," knowing Uncle Sam would use the money to right wrongs, build bridges and comfort the widows and orphans. But has anyone seen Uncle Sam recently? There is a rumor that the Nixon team took out the old gent two decades ago. They found him rattling around in a back office, raving about health care and housing and a few spanking-new pieces of infrastructure to plop down somewhere -- and they quietly sealed the door. It was a coup of sorts...
...Rumor has it that Eliot, which usually dominates the May races, will be given a serious challenge this year by Leverett and Dunster...