Word: access
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Investigators were considering various ways of gaining access to a sprawling private hunting preserve northwest of Ann Arbor that is owned by Louis ("Big Louie") Ruggirello, a prosperous entrepreneur who has been imprisoned for cheating on his income taxes. Ruggirello often invites his friends in to hunt for deer and foxes and other game. The lawmen want to roam the grounds to hunt for the body of Jimmy Hoffa...
...important than Lajes Field in the Azores. Nonetheless, the organization would find it awkward, at best, to let Portugal remain a member if Lisbon's government was dominated by the Communists or more extreme leftists. Such a development could strategically affect the western end of the Mediterranean and access to the Strait of Gibraltar; it could also influence the course of Spain's development in the post-Franco...
...State Department-was less the revelation than the name of the article's author, William Beecher. Globe Diplomatic Correspondent Beecher was for the past two years-until last May -Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs, a sensitive post that gave him regular access to secret intelligence information...
...Inside Access. Beecher is no stranger to scoops. A lifelong newspaperman except for his stint at the Pentagon-which he left with a Distinguished Service Medal to return to journalism-he was once a defense specialist for the New York Times, where he scored major beats on the secret U.S. bombing of Cambodia in 1969 and the SALT talks in 1971. But some Government officials have strong suspicions about this latest coup. Beecher, they suspect, may have been using material he recollected from his Government days to write the article. Beecher flatly denies the insinuation. "My story," he insists...
...will be accused of being his own source for scoops. Beecher concedes only that the Pentagon experience may have prepared him to "know the right questions to ask." His critics are unmoved, however, by his denials, claiming that he wrote several earlier stories for the Globe based on "inside access." Significantly, the only reaction from an Israeli official to Beecher's piece was a rather feeble dismissal of it as "speculation," while the Administration issued a "no comment...