Word: turneritis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Liberals and the minority New Democratic Party have turned the daily question period in the House of Commons into an opportunity to attack Mulroney. Says Liberal M.P. John Nunziata: "This government has lost the moral right to govern." Still, the Liberals, led by M.P. John Turner, have no program of their own and are struggling to find one. The Prime Minister has attempted to play down the seriousness of some charges by saying, "Everyone knows the Liberals did worse." He has also lashed out at the parliamentary press corps. "The press is chasing its tail every day . . ." Mulroney charged recently...
...beard. "This is the last message," wrote Captive Alann Steen the next day. "Once again we announce that we will be executed at midnight." Steen issued his stark pronouncement in an open letter last week that was signed as well by fellow U.S. Hostages Robert Polhill and Jesse Turner. Terrorists were threatening to kill the Americans and Indian National Mithileshwar Singh, also a Beirut University College professor, unless Israel released 400 imprisoned Arabs by the following midnight. But as the deadline expired, the Islamic Jihad for the Liberation of Palestine, which holds the four captives, said it would spare their...
...Diego, whose yacht club is entitled to designate the next pond. Hawaii's dramatic seas, for example, may be considered splashier for TV. Under the Deed of Gift, only a foreign power can dislodge the Cup from wherever the S.D.Y.C. decides to display it. Just as Southerner Ted Turner once defended for New York City, any U.S. suitors must now pledge fealty to San Diego. This may affect the enthusiasm of San Francisco or New York for anteing up again...
Vice President for Administration Robert H. Scott says he wants to spend Valentine's Day "on a desert island with Tina Turner...
...attacked Lebanon. Along with the message, they released a photo showing Hostage Robert Polhill, 52, an accounting lecturer from New York, with automatic weapons aimed at his head. The other captives: Alann Steen, 47, a journalism instructor who previously taught at California's Humboldt State University; Jesse Jonathan Turner, 39, a mathematics professor from Boise; and Mithileshwar Singh, chairman of the business-studies division. The kidnapings set off a wave of student protests that sent thousands of demonstrators into the streets of Beirut...