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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...brother Earl Ruby, another will, written in the hospital but unsigned because Ruby died ten minutes before the witness arrived, leaves the weapon to his family. Whoever gets the gun will sell it, but the proceeds could be quickly eaten up. Taxes owed to Texas and the IRS top $100,000, says Mayer, and he claims he is owed...
...fear that a single incident could set off a mass panic," says Liu. Liu also concedes that this innocent movement could deteriorate into a government backlash that might not carry the widespread vindictiveness of the Cultural Revolution but that nonetheless would result in a shake-up at the top...
Several of their objectives are clear. One is a clean sweep of China's rampant corruption. The demand seems straightforward enough, but implied in it is an attack on what the protesters see as the abuse of power by top party officials. Virtually all of them have been accused of nepotism. Li Peng is viewed as a beneficiary of nepotism since he was an orphan raised by Zhou Enlai...
...HOPE SPECIAL (NBC, May 24, 8 p.m. EDT). Bob totes his one-liners to Paris to celebrate the French Revolution's bicentennial. Bet he can't top "Let them eat cake...
...late 1986, after the IRS dropped a tax case against Guess that had been initiated by Jordache, top agency officials began to investigate Saranow's possible role. The probe intensified in 1987, when Saranow's office dropped charges against Jeff Hamilton only days after that firm withdrew a lawsuit it had filed against Guess. Meanwhile, the IRS rejected Saranow's request to take a leave of absence and work for Guess, as his deputy, Howard Emirhanian, had done a year earlier. Saranow was cleared of charges of wrongdoing...