La fiscal Reno

 Para atrapar a un brillante ex-catedrático y terrorista como Ted Kaczynski hacía falta también una brillante y talentosa fiscal de estado como Janet Reno. Reno fue la primera mujer en ser fiscal general. Reno fue de origen humilde y ayudó a la familia a hacer manteca para sobrevivir. Siempre fue una excelente estudiante y estuvo entre las 16 mujeres que se inscribieron para estudiar leyes en Harvard

En vocabulario: churn, outgrow, salutatorian

 

The armed seizure of six-year-old Elián González and his return to his father, who eventually took him home to Cuba; Elián's mother and stepfather had died in a dangerous trip by sea, and though his U.S. relatives had lost custody to his father in court, local officials did not enforce the ruling. Reno made the decision to remove Elián González from the house of a relative…

 

Reno enrolled at Harvard Law School, one of 16 women in a class of 500 students…

 

… you can do anything you really want if it's the right thing to do and you put your mind to it…

 

Janet Wood Reno (July 21, 1938 – November 7, 2016) was an American lawyer who served as the Attorney General of the United States from 1993 until 2001. President Bill Clinton nominated Reno on February 11, 1993, and the Senate confirmed her the following month. She was the first woman to serve as Attorney General.

Reno en la Casa Blanca junto a Al Gore y Bill Clinton

 

Reno was born in Miami, Florida. Reno's mother wrote a weekly home improvement column for The Miami News. Janet's father was an emigrant from Denmark and a reporter for the Miami Herald for 43 years. Janet Reno had three younger siblings. In 1943, the Reno family moved to a house in rural South Miami; it came with enough land to keep farm animals, including cows, chicken, ducks, goats, and turkeys. Reno helped her parents churn butter, which the family sold to make ends meet.

As the family expanded, they outgrew the house and couldn't afford a larger one. Jane Reno (Janet´s mother) decided to build a new home herself near the Everglades, learning masonry, electrical work, and plumbing for the task. The Reno family moved to the house Jane built when Janet 8 was years old. The house would be Reno's lifelong home and a source of inspiration; she later said, "the house is a symbol to me that you can do anything you really want if it's the right thing to do and you put your mind to it." The Renos' lot for the house originally was 21 acres, some of which they later sold to pay for the children's education.

Reno attended public school in Miami-Dade County, Florida. After she completed middle school in 1951, Reno's parents sent her to stay with her uncle who served as a U.S. military judge in Regensburg, Germany. There, Janet continued her education and traveled around Europe during breaks from school. After a year, Reno returned to Florida where she was a debating champion and salutatorian at Coral Gables Senior High School. In 1956 she enrolled at Cornell University, where she majored in chemistry, became president of the Women's Self-Government Association, and earned her room and board. After graduating from Cornell, Reno enrolled at Harvard Law School, one of 16 women in a class of 500 students. She graduated from Harvard in 1963.

 

Some of the events that occurred during Reno's tenure:

The 51-day Waco siege standoff and resulting 76 deaths—the Branch Davidians—in Waco, Texas.

The antitrust division brought suit against the software company Microsoft for violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act.

Capture and conviction of Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber.

Capture and conviction of Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols for the Oklahoma City bombing.

The armed seizure of six-year-old Elián González and his return to his father, who eventually took him home to Cuba.

 

Un agente federal retira a Elián González

Reno never married and did not have children. She took Spanish lessons during her time as state attorney. She remained active after her diagnosis of Parkinson's disease in 1995; she learned in-line skating in 1996.

 

Reno died from Parkinson's disease on November 7, 2016. She was surrounded by friends and family at the end of her life. Upon her death, President Barack Obama praised Reno for her "intellect, integrity, and fierce commitment to justice" and President Clinton released a statement thanking Reno "for her service, counsel, and friendship."

 

Janet Reno on Doing What’s Right

The first female attorney general of the United States, Janet Reno, discusses one of her most divisive political cases ever: the custody of Cuban refugee Elìán González.

 

—We are talking live with the attorney general and we are talking whether or not the action she took to remove Elián from that home was indeed reasonable as most of you know he´s now staying with his father, his stepmother and half-brother at the Wye River Retreat in Maryland. Miguel Gonzalez must stay in the United States until a federal appeals court rules on the Miami relatives bid for asylum.

I don´t think anybody would want to be you at this time. It must be very tough sitting where you sit.

 

—The American people have been very, very wonderful. Some have criticized, others have supported me but I think deep down everybody understands that we´re trying to do what´s right. Harry Truman said doing what´s right is easy, trying to figure it out is much more difficult. But it´s been an extraordinary opportunity in these last seven and a half years to try to use the law the right way, to serve the American people.

 

Janet Reno's career punctuated by highs, lows

… She put some bad, bad dudes behind bars. Four of the highest crimes prosecuted by Reno's Justice Department imprisoned some of the country's most notorious criminals: Ted Kaczynski, aka the Unabomber; Timothy McVeigh, orchestrator of the Oklahoma City bombing; Ramzi Yousef, mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing; and Mir Aimal Kasi, who killed two CIA employees outside the agency's Langley, Virginia, headquarters in 1993.

Kaczynski received multiple life sentences and remains incarcerated at a Supermax prison in Colorado…

 

Vocabulario

Churn: shake (milk or cream) in a machine in order to produce butter.

 

Outgrow: grow too big for.

"The cradle which Patrick had outgrown"

 

Salutatorian: A salutatorian is a graduate who finished with the second highest rank in his or her class. Only the valedictorian did better.

 

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La primera víctima fue Terry Marker, en 1978, oficial de policía en Northwestern University… Al empezar a abrir el paquete la bomba explotó. Marker sufrió heridas menores en su mano izquierda… Las víctimas

 

… algunas teorías señalaron a Kaczynski como el Asesino del Zodíaco. Entre las pistas estaba el hecho de que vivió en el área de la bahía de San Francisco… El arresto

 

He took that name in part due to memories of the priest he had befriended as a boy… Pat Morita

 

Esto es parte del archive: Unabomber

 

Fuentes

Janet Reno, Wikipedia