Word: weres
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His last attempts at manipulation were unwitting acts in a black comedy. When his mother died in Manila, Marcos refused to give permission for her burial, using her corpse to prod the government of Corazon Aquino into allowing him to return to mourn. He was turned down. In December 1988...
An additional $250 million in Pentagon contracts was laundered through the Department of Energy and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. The Energy Department's inspector general, John Layton, said contracts at DOE were drawn so loosely that the department was forced to pay fully even when contractors defrauded...
The library loophole was just one of an array of misdeeds reported to the Glenn committee by some of the Federal Government's 23 inspectors general, whose semi-independent offices were created in 1978 to ferret out abuse in the departments and agencies to which they are attached. Glenn has...
During the mid-1980s, Rather showed gripping scenes of battling troops and suffering civilians, most photographed by freelance cameraman Mike Hoover, 45. The images won CBS an award for news coverage. But the New York Post, citing sources in the U.S., Europe and Asia, said some scenes were fabricated. CBS...
Which is just the problem. The scenes with James Earl Jones were not just of motion-picture quality; they were virtually indistinguishable from a motion picture. TV news producers may well be capable of making docudramas as good as or better than Hollywood's; the question is whether they should...