Word: suspected
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...wives. Jessica Rabbit, Roger's spouse, is one such bimbette. "I'm not bad," Jessica pouts, "I'm just drawn that way." But all Toontown knows she's been spending time with Marvin Acme, who owns the local gagworks. So when Marvin gets bumped off, Roger is the prime suspect. His only hope is Eddie Valiant (Bob Hoskins), a human detective who has been burned out and bitter ever since a Toon killed his brother by dropping a piano on the poor sib's head...
Probing Antarctica's secrets is an intimidating task. Winter temperatures regularly plunge to -100 degreesF, and the pole itself is sunless for six months. But in recent years the Soviet Union and other nations have fished Antarctic waters for tiny crustaceans known as krill and for other seafood. Scientists suspect, but have not proved, the existence of uranium deposits similar to those located in southern Australia and South America, to which Antarctica was attached some 150 million years ago. The presence of other minerals, including gold and diamonds, is believed possible. But since most deposits would lie beneath...
...tale sketched by the girl and her mother told of a horrific crime -- the kidnaping, rape and abuse of a black 15-year-old by six white men, one wearing a badge. Last week, after six months of fitful investigations, a judge finally ordered someone to jail -- not a suspect, but the girl's mother Glenda Brawley...
Blacks are not unanimously grateful for the attention. Along with whites, they remember that Mason unsuccessfully challenged Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau at the polls three years ago, and some suspect that the lawyers are not above advancing their personal ambitions. Moderates of all races have winced at reports that Mason and Maddox have established ties with the fiery black Muslim Louis Farrakhan...
...that all the seal pups in the region could be wiped out. The toll to date: at least 450 adults and pups in Denmark and an additional 50 in West Germany, out of a total population of 10,000 to 15,000 in the region. Many scientists strongly suspect that acute pollution of the North Sea is a major culprit. Says West German Zoologist Gunter Heidemann: "The dead seals we've found have shown high concentrations of heavy metals and chlorinated hydrocarbons...