Word: witnessers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The trial involved payoffs in an obscure New York City agency, but the cast of characters and sordid details made for great drama. Here was Donald Manes, borough president of Queens and a powerful Democratic Party boss who killed himself by thrusting a kitchen knife into his chest last March...
That was 50 years ago. Since then the true story has been told only in fragmentary fashion, as the facts filtered through decades of unrelenting Soviet denial. Fittingly, another poet, Robert Conquest, has now come forward to write The Harvest of Sorrow, the first major scholarly book on the horrors...
The grand jury charged that since 1978, Escobar and his confederates have smuggled into the U.S. at least 58 tons of cocaine from facilities like Tranquilandia, a massive complex of coke-processing laboratories in the Amazon jungle that Colombian authorities busted in 1984. The Medellin drug barons were also indicted...
How does a director of Peter Weir's caliber make a miscalculation of this magnitude? One suspects that this passionate and meticulous Australian filmmaker was carried away by his own obsession. From his first success (Picnic at Hanging Rock) to his last (Witness), Weir has been at pains to dislocate...
Although it had no apparent connection to the Middle East's brutal politics of terror and revenge, the murder of Besse was particularly chilling. A highly respected executive, Besse was beginning to improve loss-riddled Renault's fortunes. He had had little involvement in politics and avoided the public spotlight...