Word: five
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Also on trial, albeit indirectly, was an election-financing system in which Senators grovel for contributions to finance ever more costly TV campaigns, then listen best to the wishes of those who give the most. Anticipating the claim that each of the five had merely taken proper steps to help a constituent, special counsel Robert Bennett declared, "These activities went beyond the norm of constituent service." In helping Keating, who awaits trial for defrauding investors in his defunct California-based Lincoln Savings & Loan and in its parent, American Continental Corp., the Senators, Bennett charged, had ignored the welfare of many...
Bennett made distinctions between the culpability of each of the five. He implied that the actions of Arizona Republican John McCain and Ohio Democrat John Glenn were not serious enough to warrant punishment. He portrayed Michigan Democrat Donald Riegle as deceptive and suspiciously forgetful. He laid the heaviest blame on California Democrat Alan Cranston and Arizona Democrat Dennis DeConcini. Cranston, who will undergo cancer treatments this week, has announced that he will not seek re-election. Still, Bennett did not spare any of the five in his six-hour summation...
...existing rules. Riegle charged that Bennett had omitted exonerating evidence. Glenn noted that he had rejected a Keating fund-raising offer once he learned that Lincoln was under criminal investigation. But it was Cranston who offered the defense that could be most effective with his colleagues. If what the five had done was wrong, Cranston warned, "you better run for cover, because every Senator has done it." If true, that was a powerful argument for reform...
...injection. If the judge ratifies the jury's recommendation next month, as expected, Faye Copeland, 69, will become the oldest woman in the nation on death row. Last week Livingston County jurors ordered the ultimate punishment for the Missouri great-grandmother for her role in the bizarre killings of five drifters to cover up a cattle-rustling scheme...
...eight-mile trip from the Dehaishe refugee camp near Bethlehem to Jerusalem, where he put in nine-hour days as a plasterer for an Israeli construction firm. After nine years on the job, his wage had risen to nearly $3 an hour, just enough to support his wife and five children...