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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have shocked and outraged ordinary citizens, party members and nonmembers alike. Disgrace knows no limits for Erich Honecker, less than two months ago the most powerful man in East Germany: last week the former party chief and eight of his erstwhile top lieutenants were formally charged by the state prosecutor's office with "enriching themselves through abuse of office." Seven of the ex-Politburo members were packed off to jail pending trial. Illness spared the other two, including Honecker, from suffering the same fate -- at least for the time being...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life in The Golden Ghetto | 12/18/1989 | See Source »

...federal prosecutor named as possible suspects Christoph Seidler, 31, and Horst Meyer, 30, both believed to be R.A.F. commandos. A third man, as yet unnamed, is also a suspect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terrorism Target for the Red Army Faction | 12/11/1989 | See Source »

...plausible explanations for the lapses, the explanations were slow in coming. With more time, Giuliani might have been able to capitalize on his reputation as one of the nation's toughest lawmen. When the candidates squared off in televised debates, Dinkins complained that Giuliani was behaving more like a prosecutor than a mayor. Giuliani fired back, "I think the people of this town want a mayor who has nothing to fear from a prosecutor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Nice Guy Finishes First | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

...Gibson became the first black mayors to fall to challenges from a new generation of black aspirants less interested in national podiums than in the unglamorous day-to-day management of their cities. Many of the new generation of urban leaders, such as Baltimore's Kurt Schmoke, a former prosecutor, have backgrounds in business or the professions. "There is a growing respect for the intractability of urban problems," says analyst Williams. "Some of the new black mayors have learned from the old black mayors not to promise too much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hope, Not Fear | 9/25/1989 | See Source »

...Attorney Lehtinen, 43, grew up in Homestead, next to the park, and was appointed federal prosecutor for South Florida in June 1988, just when George Bush was campaigning for the White House by promising "no net loss of wetlands." An Army paratrooper who was badly wounded in the face in Viet Nam, Lehtinen was a Democratic state legislator when he married a Republican colleague, Ileana Ros; a year later, he switched to the G.O.P. Last month Ileana Ros-Lehtinen won election to Congress to fill Claude Pepper's seat. As a legislator, Lehtinen earned a reputation as a hot-tempered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Last Gasp for the Everglades | 9/25/1989 | See Source »

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