| Scandals, Embarrassment, and Tragedies - The 1980'S |
EasyNews, UseNet made Ea .. |
| ::darkshadows:: (blood@thirsty.net) |
2008/05/05 21:00 |
Path: news.nzbot.com!not-for-mail
From: "::darkshadows::" <blood@thirsty.net>
Newsgroups: alt.fan.rolex
Subject: Scandals, Embarrassment, and Tragedies - The 1980'S
Message-ID: <6scv141vocvle7882ut00guivhrmg155n1@4ax.com>
X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 4.2/32.1118
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080505-0, 05/05/2008), Outbound message
X-Antivirus-Status: Clean
Lines: 62
X-Complaints-To: abuse@easynews.com
Organization: EasyNews, UseNet made Easy!
X-Complaints-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly.
Date: Tue, 06 May 2008 03:00:57 GMT
Xref: news.nzbot.com alt.fan.rolex:6339
Scandals, Embarrassment, and Tragedies - The 1980'S
July 1984: Twenty-one people were fatally shot in a McDonald's
restaurant in San Ysidro, California by James Oliver Huberty, an
out-of-work security guard. Huberty was killed by a police
sharpshooter. It was one of the worst mass murders in American
history.
April 1985: It was revealed that the U.S. Pentagon was paying
weapons-makers $500 to $1,200 a page to produce training manuals for
U.S. troops. As a hidden cost was the correction of frequent errors in
the texts, which were corrected with taxpayers' money. Critics argued
that the high cost of the manuals showed how the U.S. military's
purchasing system rewarded inefficiency, much to the government's
embarrassment.
February 1987: Fawn Hall, the attractive 27-year-old secretary to Lt.
Col. Oliver North, told the independent counsel investigating the
Iran-Contra affair, that she helped North destroy National Security
documents and, at his instruction, made alterations in four key memos
in order to obscure the role played by the NSC in the matter. Hall's
disclosure came only after she was granted immunity from prosecution.
June 1987: The UNICEF chief in Belgium resigned over a scandal tying
the organization to a child pornography ring.
February 1988: TV evangelist Jimmy Swaggart announced tearfully that
he'd relinquish the pulpit because of a confrontation with photographs
of him visiting a prostitute. Only a year earlier, Swaggart had
denounced his rival evangelist Jim Bakker after a sex scandal had
destroyed Bakker's "Praise The Lord" (PTL) ministry. Swaggart was
quoted, "I have sinned against you, and I beg your forgiveness."
Swaggart said he did not engage in intercourse with the woman, but
"paid her to perform pornographic acts." ABC reported that Marvin
Gorman, a television evangelist from New Orleans, was believed to have
provided the incriminating photos to church officials.
April 1988: The Arizona Senate removed Gov. Evan Mecham from office,
the first ouster of a governor in almost 60 years. The Senate found
him guilty on two charges: attempting to block an investigation into a
death threat from a state aide to a grand jury witness, and channeling
state funds into his struggling automobile dealership. Mecham had
antagonized minorities in 1987 soon after taking office by canceling
the Martin Luther King, Jr. state holiday. While in office, the
governor angered many people with his frequent casual slurs directed
at ethnic groups, homosexuals, and women.
June 1989: In Beijing, China, at Tiananmen Square, the People's
Liberation Army stormed the city to end the square's occupation by
thousands of university students pressing for reform. It was estimated
that 3,000 students were killed by the government army, although China
admitted only to "up to 300" deaths caused by the army's fight to
regain control of the city.
June 1989: A pipeline carrying liquefied-petroleum gas exploded in the
Ural mountains, 745 miles southeast of Moscow, and unleashed a
"tornado of fire" on two passing trains carrying more than 1,200
people. At least 500 people were killed by the explosion. Soviet
President Mikhail Gorbachev rushed to the scene of the grisly accident
and blamed the catastrophe on negligence.
|
|
|