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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although the firm prospered, the chickens and the lenses were still on Wise's mind. Three years ago he sold his company for several million dollars and set out to pursue his dream full-time...
...Pastoral Assistance to Health Care Workers refused to allow a speech by militant Peter Larkin of England, one of several AIDS sufferers who were invited by the Vatican. Frustrated by the council's tight control of the agenda, some 50 dissidents accused it of hindering open discussions, then set up their own lunch-hour conference. On the sidelines, some medical professionals defended the use of condoms; others accused the church of homophobia. John White, a priest who contracted the virus while in Kenya and now runs an AIDS treatment center in London, was ejected from one conference session for wearing...
...swiftly set out to find the leaker. Although the company denied it, sources at GM said the giant automaker has offered a $30,000 bounty for information that could lead to the disloyal worker. GM clearly felt betrayed by the release of the confidential photographs. "People are very upset," said corporate spokesman Dee Allen. "It's no different from being on the Detroit Pistons and giving away the playbook...
...this new Europe. Do we use wood or cinder blocks? Where do we lay out the walls?" White House chief of staff John Sununu could think of no better way to counter criticism of the Administration's lack of a blueprint than to circulate anew to reporters a bound set of Bush speeches dating back to last spring -- "as if nothing had happened in Eastern Europe since then," snorts a Sununu critic in the Administration...
...terrorists but then released all but two of them in October 1988, after discovering a cache of explosives and a bomb similar to the one used to destroy Flight 103 eight weeks later. Marwan Khreesat, a Jordanian who some authorities believe assembled the Pan Am bomb, was among those set free. Published stories contend that Khreesat was also a German intelligence agent; German authorities deny...