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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Clarion-Ledger show that the Mississippi Sovereignty Commission, a now defunct agency created by the state to battle desegregation, may have interfered in the jury selection for Beckwith's second trial. The newspaper found evidence that commission members relayed information about prospective jurors to Beckwith's lawyer. Assistant District Attorney Bobby DeLaughter is pushing for a new indictment, but that will not be easy. Many witnesses have died, and the murder weapon is missing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mississippi: Second Look At Murder | 12/25/1989 | See Source »

Mencken ordered that the diaries be sealed for 25 years after his death, which occurred in 1956, and thereafter be made available to students only. But in 1985 the Maryland Attorney General ruled the restriction not legally binding. Mencken would probably have put down controversy over the diaries to what he called "the virulence of the national appetite for bogus revelation." But admirers of Mencken's wit may now find it harder to laugh with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Maryland: Mencken's Musings | 12/18/1989 | See Source »

...people coming in with bags of cash," says a regulator, "but as far as anything else goes, you can forget it." Yet many bankers think the feds have become indiscriminate in their crackdown. "They are characterizing traditional, ordinary, international banking transactions as money laundering," gripes Gerald Houlihan, a Miami attorney who represents financial institutions in money-laundering and forfeiture cases. "They are not going after money launderers, but are attempting to terrorize banks in an effort to give the impression they are doing something about drugs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Torrent of Dirty Dollars | 12/18/1989 | See Source »

...equates with her predecessor Marcos. In the past, every display of post-rebellion resolve has been followed by inconsistency and a return to bureaucratic procrastination. Unfortunately, Aquino's devotion to constitutional principles is "part of the reason she is perceived as being weak," says Elliot Richardson, former U.S. Attorney General, who is now U.S. special representative for the Multilateral Assistance Initiative, an international program that has obtained pledges of $3.5 billion in development aid for the Philippines from a score of countries and institutions. He explains, "She seems totally dedicated to democratic government -- to the point where she will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines There Is Always a Next Time | 12/18/1989 | See Source »

Thomas, and attorney who has lived on Ware St. since 1985, said in an interview that in the past few years nearly all of the students have been extremely well-behaved, but that each year--this year included--there are two or three Greenough rooms that are excessively noisy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Greenough Meeting Warns Frosh of Noise | 12/16/1989 | See Source »

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