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The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
The Washington Times is a conservative newspaper published Monday through Friday by the Washington Times LLC. Its editorial headquarters is in Washington, D.C. and it's been published since 1982. The owner of the Washington Times is the Unification Church.The Washington Times covers local, national and world news, with an emphasis on politics. The paper is known for its conservative slant, since it was founded as a response to the more liberal Washington Post. Readership is nationwide.The fact that Reverend Sun Myung Moon of the Unification Churchfounded The Washington Times has made the paper controversial from its very beginning. The question remains as to how much Sun Myung Moon or his aides influence the editorial content of the paper. In 2003, five staff members resigned when their editorials criticizing South Korea for its political repression were stifled. However, not all readers are critical of the way the Washington Times handles news; it is reported that President Ronald Reagan read the paper every day while in office. Sam Dealey is the executive editor, The Washington Times LLC is named as publisher and Chris Dolan is managing editor.
Articles from August 30, 1997
An Update on UDC
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Ever watch Lifetime, the cable TV station? It airs biographies on contemporary women, programs about caring for babies and an assorted mix of reruns and tear-jerkers. You get the picture. It's the women thing. Well, add the University of the District...
A Question of What You've Been Smoking
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The tobacco liability-bailout bill hasn't even been taken up by Congress yet, and already lawmakers have sweetened the deal for the tobacco industry. The new balanced budget tax law includes a provision that could save Big Tobacco something on the...
As New Hampshire Goes, Etc
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The Manchester Union Leader thinks that Sen. Bob Smith has what it takes to be president: "The man is a principled conservative, a patriot and a man of uncompromising integrity." Wow! But wait a minute. For all these warm, cuddly kudos, the newspaper...
Back from Tibet
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Rep. Frank Wolf is one of the two main sponsors of the Freedom from Religious Persecution Act. He has just returned from a trip to Tibet and tells a story that ought to persuade everyone of the urgency of his legislation - just as it chills the blood....
Big Appliances Spin into Big Hobby: 2 Want a Museum for Their Collection of Washer-Dryers
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John Lefever and Tom Stiyer can spin stories faster than any Washington political or public relations aide, and they don't have a special agenda when doing so. They simply go downstairs and turn on the dials of numerous washers and dryers hooked...
Budget Hopes May Be Chilled: CBO to Discount Talk of Big Surpluses
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The Congressional Budget Office next week will announce that the new budget law just barely achieves balance in 2002 with the help of some gimmicks such as sales of the TV spectrum andGovernor's Island in New York, sources said. In a gloomier assessment...
Cal's Hit Tops Mets in 12th
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BALTIMORE - It has been six weeks since the Baltimore Orioles have lost as many as two games in a row, but they needed 12 innings last night to preserve that streak. With manager Davey Johnson wheeling and dealing so much that he seemed to be back...
Caps' Wilson Can't Afford to Waste Time
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The age-old axiom holds that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. In less than two weeks, however, the Washington Capitals will start the fixin' process - a result of missing the playoffs last spring for the first time in 15 years. Training camp opens...
Confessions of Priest, the Artist
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First of two parts This is the 28th in an infinite series that profiles the elite of the comic-book industry. This month, we excavate the emboliform nucleus of Christopher Priest and ask him to: GIVE US A PIECE OF YOUR MIND Nineteen years...
Davis Wants Return to Field to Take Place in Baltimore
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BALTIMORE - As the Baltimore Orioles made it more clear that they intend to activate him Monday, outfielder Eric Davis said yesterday that he wants his first game back to be at Camden Yards. The Orioles leave Monday for a nine-day road trip that...
Donated Goods Profit Companies, Needy
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One man's overstocks are another man's treasures. They're also another man's (or woman's) file folders, power tools and breath fresheners. They're desk chairs and software, bathtubs and party supplies. For the past 20 years a national group has...
Ex-Taxi Chief Faces Bribery, Fraud, Theft Counts: Charges Say He Sold Bogus Cab Licenses
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The former chief of the D.C. Office of Taxicabs was indicted yesterday by a federal grand jury accusing him of accepting bribes in a scheme in which he sold bogus licenses to cabdrivers. The nine-count indictment accuses Ronald L. Stokes, 48,...
Family-Planning Clinics Sanction Sexual Abuse
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In her Aug. 24 letter, Magdalene Constan of Planned Parenthood argues that parental-consent laws will not improve communication in families but "will simply prevent young people from acting responsibly" ("Requiring kids to get parents' consent will...
Federal Employees Get 2.8% Pay Raise: Clinton Acts to Pre-Empt Bigger One
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Federal employees got a little raise yesterday, one President Clinton called "appropriate" and "meaningful." In a letter to Congress, Mr. Clinton outlined a 2.8 percent pay raise for 2 million-plus workers, to take effect in January. Though on...
Hatred of Yankees Fueled Secessionist
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At 4:30 a.m. on April 12, 1861, a slim, white-haired man of 67 stepped to a cannon in Charleston harbor. He pulled its lanyard, and an arc of white-hot shot made its way to Fort Sumter. The Civil War had begun, and for Edmund Ruffin, the man who...
Hokies Try to Shake Opening-Game Blues
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Virginia Tech football coach Frank Beamer doesn't understand his team's first-game woes the past two years. The final week of preparation goes well. The game plan is strong. Everything seems perfect. And then the Hokies underwhelm beatable opponents,...
Judges Overturn Ruling on Foster: Attorney's Notes Get New Scrutiny
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A federal court yesterday brought Whitewater prosecutors closer to a possible review of notes of conversations between White House Deputy Counsel Vincent W. Foster Jr. and his attorney about the White House travel office firings. A three-judge...
Legislation Would Alter Military Conviction
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Dr. Samuel Mudd was sentenced by the military commission to life at hard labor and shipped off to the military prison at Fort Jefferson, Dry Tortugas. He attempted to escape when his white guards were replaced by black ones. He failed. He then...
Life of Assassination Figure Muddier Than Known
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For more than 70 years, the Mudd family has engaged in a campaign to rehabilitate Dr. Samuel Mudd, who was convicted of helping John Wilkes Booth escape after he assassinated President Abraham Lincoln. The truth is that Mudd was a racist slaveholder...
Loan to Developer Hit in Gaithersburg: Plan Replaces Run-Down Apartments
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Gaithersburg is preparing to offer a $1 million taxpayer-funded loan, interest free, to a private developer to demolish a run-down apartment complex and replace it with luxury apartments. The Magruder Cos. will have 10 years to repay the loan...
Manager of Year? There's Only One Choice
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BALTIMORE - You love him, you hate him, but you can't ignore him any longer - Davey Johnson has got to win his first Manager of the Year Award this season. It's remarkable that Johnson, baseball's winningest active manager with a career record...
Mary Won't Be Elevated, Vatican Says
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Lest an idea trumpeted by Newsweek's front cover should be left hanging, the Vatican has spoken in reply. The Virgin Mary will not be upgraded to be a co-Savior alongside Jesus Christ. Newsweek reported the delivery of a petition with 40,383...
National Airport Radar Goes Down Again: Outage Is Second in Less Than 24 Hours
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Just as the Labor Day travel crunch was getting started, air traffic control radar at National Airport went on the fritz yesterday for the second time in less than 24 hours, the third time in a month. The Federal Aviation Administration said controllers...
NationsBank Lodges Record Bid for Florida Bank
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NationsBank Corp. raised the stakes in the financial consolidation game yesterday when it bid $15.5 billion for Barnett Banks Inc. of Florida, dwarfing all other financial mergers in its quest to become a banking powerhouse. If shareholders and...
NCAA Title Chase Appears Wide Open
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The race for the NCAA men's soccer title is wide open this season. "I think Jerry Yeagley [coach at Indiana] said it best when he told me that there are 20 teams that could win," George Mason coach Gordon Bradley said this week. "Unlike the pro...
No Snow Job: Redskins Rookie Smith Traveled Long and Winding Road to NFL
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Rookie starters are supposed to be glamour boys like defensive end Kenard Lang, the Washington Redskins' first-round pick from the University of Miami. Linebacker Derek Smith might be the complete opposite. Smith played his last two college seasons...
Profiling the Courage of Women in Sports
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All kinds of fun, relatively new magazines are popping up on newsstands these days. Case in point, Sports Illustrated has put forth the second test issue of Women/Sport, on display from Sept. 2 until Nov. 3. The mag targets the "Title IX generation"...
Prosecutor Paints PG Defendant as Coward; Jury Gets Murder Case
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A Prince George's County prosecutor yesterday urged jurors to convict a man he called a "snake" of murdering Howard University dentistry student Jay Willis Leroy Holmes, 26, of Capitol Heights. Assistant State's Attorney John Maloney said that...
Relaunch a Lifesaver in Atlantic
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His first boat sank leaving the pier, but New York IM Rashid Ziatdinov used the old Re-Entry Gambit to tie fellow IM Alex Stripunski for first in last weekend's 29th annual Atlantic Open at the Westin Washington City Center Hotel downtown. The Continental...
Robbery Role Baffles Supporters: Darryl Johnson's Plea Says Brother Terrance Hatched Plot
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In death, as in life, Terrance Johnson continues to make news. Friends and supporters of Johnson's, who continue to dissect his legacy, are baffled and saddened by the revelation that he masterminded the foiled February bank robbery in Aberdeen...
Roundup
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Holyfield and Moorer to fight in Las Vegas Evander Holyfield returns to the ring, and one of Las Vegas' biggest casino operators returns to big-time boxing, when Holyfield meets fellow heavyweight champion Michael Moorer on Nov. 8 in Las Vegas....
`Seismic Event' Raises Questions of Verifying Nuclear Test Ban
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Suspicions that Russia secretly carried out a small underground nuclear test two weeks ago have raised new questions about whether the signed but unratified test ban treaty can be verified effectively. Despite strong evidence suggesting a test,...
Shepherd Tough to Dislodge as Receiver
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When the Washington Redskins added free agent Alvin Harper in June to a receiving corps that already included holdover starters Henry Ellard and Michael Westbrook, few figured Leslie Shepherd would be starting the season opener. But Shepherd will...
Today's Best Bets
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FRISBEE FREESTYLE Join all of the other "disc jockeys" at Mattel's Frisbee Disc Festival from noon to 5 p.m. tomorrow on the Mall between Third and Fourth streets SW. Watch the freestyle routines and demonstrations by world-class Frisbee disc...
Travelgate's Cornelius in Clinton Inner Circle
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VINEYARD HAVEN, Mass. - Being in vacation mode, President Clinton doesn't have a large staff with him on Martha's Vineyard. But among the select group of less than a dozen is Catherine Cornelius, she of Travelgate fame. Mrs. Cornelius, a distant...
Victory for Historian, History: Japan Illegally Deleted WWII Atrocities from Schoolbooks, Its High Court Rules
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TOKYO - The Japanese Supreme Court ruled yesterday that the government illegally deleted references in schoolbooks to atrocities the Japanese army committed during World War II. The court upheld the claim of Saburo Ienaga, an 83-year-old historian...
We're Not in the Clear Yet; Endocrine-Threatening Chemicals Still Abound
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A recent editorial in The Washington Times highlights the retraction of a research paper published in Science ("The disaster that wasn't," Aug. 22). Tulane University researchers withdrew the paper when their original results, showing greatly increased...
White House Seeks More Food-Safety Power
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A week after it asked a company to pull 25 million pounds of hamburger off the market, the Clinton administration proposed tougher food safety powers yesterday, including mandatory recall authority for tainted meat and poultry. Agriculture Secretary...
