Word: suits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After only four hours of sleep and a day spent thanking campaign workers and consulting with colleagues, Margaret Thatcher welcomed TIME London Bureau Chief Christopher Ogden and Reporter Frank Melville upstairs at No. 10 Downing Street to talk about her plans for a third term. Wearing a blue suit and her trademark double strand of pearls, she sat at a small table in an oak-paneled room. Behind her were congratulatory baskets of flowers. Excerpts from the interview...
...Hula-Hoops. Finally, after 30 years of frustration, the Justice Department is preparing a new offensive in its continuing struggle to cleanse mob stains from the 2 million-member International Brotherhood of Teamsters. Federal officials confirmed last week that the Government plans to file a path-breaking civil suit asking the courts to replace the national leadership of the Teamsters with a federal trustee. The takeover bid would not affect the upcoming criminal trial of Teamster President Jackie Presser on federal racketeering charges...
...each other about their venereal diseases. Jane, who was married to Robert, an entrepreneur, for 31 years before the couple were divorced in 1984, is seeking damages of more than $2.5 million. The manager of a record company in Manhattan, she says she had few reservations about filing a suit charging Robert with giving her herpes. "There's a stigma," she says, "but I have to conquer those feelings because I know I have to do this...
...well-publicized herpes suit has been filed in Manhattan Supreme Court by Linda Feldman, a 24-year-old cellist, against Singer Tony Bennett, 60. Feldman claims damages of $90 million, saying the singer infected her during an eight- month affair that began in 1985. Feldman says that after she discovered her infection, Bennett told her, "I've had it for years. You get used to it. It's God's way of giving your sex life a rest." Bennett, who has produced medical records claiming that he does not have the ailment, has filed a $100 million counterclaim for defamation...
That has not discouraged Marc Christian, 33, from filing an $11 million suit against the estate of his lover Rock Hudson, the movie star who died from AIDS complications in 1985, and against Hudson's personal secretary, Mark Miller. Christian alleges in his Los Angeles County Superior Court suit that Hudson did not tell him he had AIDS. As a result, says Marvin Mitchelson, the nation's best-known palimony lawyer, his client Christian "lives in constant fear" of getting the disease. The case, declares Mitchelson, is really not so unusual. "It is akin to someone coming into your house...