Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Abrams arrived in Washington on July 16 and began Pentagon briefings meant to prepare him for the normally amiable question-and-answer ritual that usually precedes confirmation of presidential military appointees. But furor over the Lavelle affair has made the issue politically sticky, and a final date for Abrams' hearing has been repeatedly pushed back. Democrats would like to have the Lavelle-Abrams issue argued before the Senate and the public later in the campaign, preferably in October; Republicans want to get the case out of the way well before the election, but also wished to avoid conflict with...
...time that Oufkir was proposing the assassination of Gaddafi he was already plotting the attack on Hassan, according to the King. The scheme, in fact, was hatched only four days after army cadets stormed the King's summer palace last July. If Oufkir had a hand in that affair, it was never revealed. But he kept the King's confidence by ordering the summary execution of ten high-ranking officers (who, had they lived, might have implicated...
...gang war is really a private affair -any killing, even of criminals by criminals, is an affront to the community -but most people do not become indignant until innocent bystanders are involved. The latest incident occurred in the Neopolitan Noodle, a restaurant on Manhattan's Upper East Side that is frequented by members of the Colombo gang. The Gallo clan, bent on revenging the assassination of Crazy Joey Gallo (TIME, April 17), began staking out the restaurant in hope of catching the Colombos off guard. One night recently, a Gallo spy spotted four Colombo men gathered...
UNCTAD is a case study in proliferation. It began as a trade conference in 1964, mainly for the benefit of the less-developed nations, and has since held only three conferences, the last one a five-week affair last spring in Santiago, Chile. So far, UNCTAD has written a convention recommending that developing countries be given increased trade preferences, and in 1968 concluded an international sugar agreement. Though its record is modest, UNCTAD has its own secretary-general, external relations division, office of administration, information unit, technical-assistance coordination unit, research division, trade expansion and economic integration division, commodities division...
...would never have expected to hear from Rudy Vallee. With Candace Mossier Garrison, femme fatale is not an idle phrase. After her first marriage ended in divorce, her second, to Millionaire Jacques Mossier, ended in murder. Candy was acquitted of the deed, in a lurid trial featuring her affair with her young nephew and codefendant, Mel Powers. Last week the butler found her third husband, an electrical contractor named Barnett Garrison, lying in a pool of blood outside Candy's Houston mansion. He had fallen off the third-floor roof some time during the night. With brain damage...