Gleason Death Reflects on Life of Jackie Gleason
Jackie Gleason, the versatile entertainer, died at 71 after a career spanning The Honeymooners and Smokey and the Bandit. Born 1916 in Brooklyn, he rose from a pool hall hustler to a Broadway star and TV icon with a prolific film and music output.
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Smokey and the Bandit
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Richard Pryor
Tom Hanks
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Laurence Olivier
Iowa lobbyist spending climbs amid gifts and receptions
New figures show total lobbying gifts above prior year with 56,811 in the Senate and 10,312 in small gifts. Des Moines receptions for lawmakers and per diem debates draw mixed reactions from lawmakers and watchdogs amid broader access concerns.
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Manchester
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Common Cause
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Marion
Des Moines
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D-Oelwein
Avenson
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Hearings set terms for Iran contra testimony
Inouye announced after a long day as Stanley Sporkin defended the Reagan administration’s decision to withhold secret arms sales to Iran since 1985. North invoked his right against self incrimination and will testify under limited immunity before Congress. Lawrence Walsh oversees a criminal probe into North. Lee Hamilton said the committee controlled the terms and timing of the testimony.
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Iran
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National Security Council
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Lee Hamilton
D-Ind
House Committee
Church Worker Fired Over Attendance and Tithes
A Deseret Gymnasium employee who had 16 years of service was dismissed in 1981 for missing Sunday services and not paying tithes. A Utah federal judge ruled in 1972 that the law enabling church discrimination against secular employees was unconstitutional, a decision DOJ appealed as the Supreme Court weighed if the exemption aids religion in violation of the First Amendment.
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Deseret Gymnasium
Utah
Department of Justice
Court limits mail fraud to property rights in major ruling
In a Wednesday statement Associate Attorney General Stephen Trott criticizes the decision as contrary to prevailing court of appeals rulings and likely to affect numerous pending cases. The ruling narrows the broad intangible rights definition used in many federal corruption prosecutions, potentially invalidating prior Mandel and Margiotta convictions and fueling appeals. Justice Stevens dissented, joined partly by O'Connor.
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Court of Appeals
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Maryland
Marvin Mandel
Joseph Margiotta
Nassau County
N.Y
New York
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