Word: william
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thurmond's astonishing plea for equal opportunity failed to sway a majority of the Democratic-controlled Senate Judiciary Committee. Twice the committee deadlocked, 7 to 7, on sending the nomination to the full Senate, effectively killing the appointment of William Lucas, 61, as Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights. Republican committee members denounced the votes as bigoted and based on a double standard. Lucas was turned down, said Attorney General Dick Thornburgh in an angry statement, as a "result of raw politics...
...Exchange and found them to be full of snakes. Since then the bureau's investigation -- the most extensive ever conducted into any financial market -- has been proceeding, not so quietly, as more than a dozen traders have been pressed into cooperating with the Government. Last week, with FBI director William Sessions and U.S. Attorney General Dick Thornburgh in Chicago for the occasion, the results were finally announced: 46 traders (out of some 6,000) at the two institutions were indicted on charges ranging from defrauding customers to tax evasion to racketeering...
...Beirut station chief William Buckley, kidnaped March 16, 1984, dies in captivity. The body is never released. On Oct. 4, 1985, Islamic Jihad announce that it killed...
SENIOR EDITORS: Charles P. Alexander, Martha Duffy, Jose M. Ferrer III, Russ Hoyle, James Kelly, Stephen Koepp, Johanna McGeary, Christopher Porterfield, George Russell, Thomas A. Sancton, William E. Smith, Claudia Wallis, Jack E. White, Robert T. Zintl...
ASSOCIATE EDITORS: William R. Doerner, William A. Henry III, Marguerite Johnson, Richard Lacayo, Jacob V. Lamar, John Langone, Michael D. Lemonick, Richard N. Ostling, Sue Raffety, Ariadna Victoria Rainert, J.D. Reed, Jill Smolowe, Susan Tifft, Anastasia Toufexis, Michael Walsh, Richard Zoglin...