Word: agent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...When somebody comes to us and starts advocating shooting people, it's a natural reaction: the guy's either a nut or a federal agent." Hinckley was a voracious reader of newspapers, so it is logical that his affiliation with the Nazis began in early 1978: it was then that a spate of national news stories appeared about the National Socialists, mostly involving their planned marches through the heavily Jewish community of Skokie...
When an attack by a deranged loner occurs, there is not much that even the Secret Service can do. Sums up one senior agent: "We try to get our bodies between him and the bullets, and then get the hell out of there" - which is just what they did last Monday, efficiently and even heroically...
...both cried and hugged each other and prayed." As McCarthy recovered from surgery, his superiors praised him for executing his mission perfectly. Said Jerry Parr, head of the presidential protection detail: "I think what Agent McCarthy did was most heroic." His eldest sister Laurie joked that "thousands of relatives" would soon be flying to Washington to see their "hero...
...most important figure to face a jury as a result of the FBI sting operation. Like the six U.S. Congressmen already tried and convicted on Abscam charges, Williams faces a barrage of electronic evidence in the form of video and audio tapes of his encounters with undercover FBI agents. But in Williams' case, a figure mentioned but never before seen in Abscam tapes makes a dramatic appearance: "Sheik" Yassir Habib, a bogus Arab millionaire portrayed by Agent Richard Farhart, outfitted in dark glasses and kafiiyeh and grunting in imitation broken English...
Robert A. Beck, 55. Beck joined Prudential Insurance Co. in 1951 as a sales agent and during the next 27 years clambered to the pinnacle of the "Rock." Only one other chairman had ever started out selling policies-John Dryden, who founded the firm in 1875. Still driven by a door-to-door salesman's enthusiasm, Beck works standing up at a desk built into his office wall. He will be arguing the Business Roundtable's views on Social Security and pensions. As a lifelong insurance man, he naturally stresses the importance of future planning for businesses...