Word: emmerson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thus ended the greatest courtroom victory in many a year. Three years ago softspoken, wild-haired U. S. District Attorney George Emmerson Q (for nothing) Johnson began his campaign to dispose of gangsters by jailing them for nonpayment of taxes. Said Mr. Johnson: "This is the beginning of the end of Chicago's gangs...
...marauding dropped off sharply last fall, making the Mugabe government believe that the guerrillas were running low on ammunition. The latest rash of crimes has led Zimbabwe to point a finger at the white minority government of neighboring South Africa. Emmerson Munangagwa, Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office for Security, accused South Africa last week of training a "Matabele brigade" with the ultimate aim of destabilizing the Mugabe government. South Africa dismissed the charge as ridiculous, but diplomats in Harare are not sure. Says a Western official: "It's not in South Africa...