Word: williamsons
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Tobacco companies took several hard hits, but it did not matter. Richard Kluger's Ashes to Ashes, a comprehensive condemnation of the industry, was published. Liggett and Meyers settled a lawsuit--the first time ever for a tobacco company. A former Brown & Williamson executive turned whistle-blower. The life of Victor Crawford, a former tobacco lobbyist, came to an end from cancer of the throat after he used his final years valiantly lecturing about the evils of smoking. Science proved the direct link between smoking and lung cancer. The end result of such events was that smoking increased among children...
...liberal as his district, 21-year incumbent Waxman is a Los Angeles institution. He has led the Democratic charge to strengthen environmental regulations and create a national health-care system. His vocal attacks on tobacco earned him a trip to court, thanks to a suit by cigarette giant Brown & Williamson. But this popular and tough Democratic strategist is an odds-on favorite to win again...
...nine-year-old murder mystery in Scandinavia. In 1986, Swedish prime minister and anti-apartheid activist Olof Palme was shot in the back by an unknown gunman. Testifying Thursday in an attempt to mitigate his sentence on murder and robberies, Eugene De Kock said former South African spy Craig Williamson had led an operation to assassinate Palme. The murdered Swede had supported the African National Congress throughout the 1960s and 1970s and was one of the foremost supporters of the anti-apartheid sanctions campaign. Swedish authorities say they had privately suspected South African involvement in Palme's death since...
Young people aren't staying the way they used to. "They're going to the Lincolns and the Omahas and the bigger areas," Williamson says. "These houses you're going to see them go up for sale, and there isn't going to be a market to buy them...
Still, a bittersweet humor persists in the heartland, even in towns that have known hardship, like Harvard. Williamson, the principal, was born in Oxford, Neb., and has lived throughout the state. "I tell people I was born in Oxford and educated at Harvard," he says, chuckling. "That's one for the books...