Word: agent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there were more to come. The following day, after addressing a civic club in Macon, Ga., FBI Agent Michael Twibell not only endorsed Director Webster's statements as "right on target" with "full facts behind him" but went on to finger one category of suspects. "Some of those kids were killed by their parents," Twibell remarked. The motive: the children had been "nuisances...
...however, does not work for Brown. The agency has dutifully been coordinating its investigation with local authorities, but it does not have an agent assigned full time to the Atlanta task force, as do state and county agencies. The FBI'S inquiry is separate and, judging from last week's exchanges, perhaps sufficiently competitive to turn the race to solve the murders into a race to solve them first. Observed one investigator close to the case: "All of these agencies have big egos...
...periodic table of American prose stylists. He secures this position with a first novel that assembles a group of men to emulate a women's consciousness-raising session. In a Berkeley, Calif, living room, a basketball pro, an accountant, a doctor, a lawyer, a real estate agent, a college teacher and a psychotherapist ventilate their feelings and talk about their appetites...
...lineup has one big gap: Pitcher Don Sutton, the alltime Dodger leader in victories (230, against 175 losses), joined Houston as a free agent during the offseason. Says Garvey: "You hope that the whole staff can combine to take up the slack. And we have some good young pitchers coming along...
While the Yankees dominated the off-season with their ballyhooed signing of free-agent Outfielder Dave Winfield, the Orioles were quietly acquiring less expensive but perhaps equally valuable utility players. Manager Earl Weaver, the man of a million statistics and even more stratagems, gleefully analyzed his new acquisitions: "First we got Jim Dwyer, who can both pinch hit and shore up our late-inning outfield defense. He can play first base too, so that gives us options in the infield as well. Then there's José Morales, who batted .303 as a designated hitter with Minnesota last year...