Word: traced
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ability to deal with life's problems [Jan. 31]. The religion uses modern technology to achieve goals that other groups try to reach through prayer. All great religions have had upheaval and dissent within their organizations. I am not active in the Church of Scientology, but I can trace the success and happiness of my life to the teachings of L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology...
...case against Hastings never was. Borders refused to cooperate, and investigators could not trace any money all the way to Hastings. Conceded Prosecutor Robert Richter in his opening argument to the jury: "We will not put a big number four up in front of you. We'll put two plus two." The Government contended that Hastings had gone to Miami Beach's Fontainebleau Hilton Hotel for dinner on Sept. 16, 1981, as Borders had said he would, to signal his involvement in the scheme. Prosecutors played a tape of a phone call Hastings made to Borders 19 days...
WITHOUT A TRACE Directed by Stanley R. Jaffe Screenplay by Beth Gutcheon
MISSING FLORIDA BOY FOUND DEAD AFTER LONG SEARCH. CALIFORNIA MAN SURRENDERS KIDNAPED BOY AFTER 7 YEARS. The tragedy of the kidnaped child is society's meanest joke on the fussy optimism of parents. Without a Trace, loosely based on the disappearance of six-year-old Etan Patz from a SoHo street in 1979, is an earnest, fatally muddled attempt to dramatize this dilemma. A boy is missing; his mother (Kate Nelligan) and father (David Dukes) wait and wait, not daring to despair; a sympathetic detective (Judd Hirsch) trudges after tantalizing leads; a kind of life goes...
...dramatize compellingly the parents' response to a kidnaping demands more cinematic ingenuity than is shown here. For all its good intentions, Without a Trace exploits a subject it means to understand, and, by its bathetic end, becomes what it means to denounce: a species of liberal kiddie porn...