Word: alaska
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Agency. Last week President Reagan's selection of William J. Casey, his former campaign manager, to head the CIA came under increasingly serious assault from Republicans on Capitol Hill. After sounding out the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, which oversees the agency, Assistant Majority Leader Ted Stevens of Alaska said that a bipartisan committee majority wants Casey to quit...
...dispute. Unless the U.S. proposes to match the Soviets tank for tank, it must rely on high-technology weapons to "fight outnumbered and win," as the Army's official field manual puts it. Still, the reformers have caught the ear of an influential group of legislators: Cohen, Hatfield and Alaska's Ted Stevens among the Senate's controlling Republicans; Hart, Nunn and Michigan's Carl Levin among Democratic Senators; Republicans Jack Edwards of Alabama, Newton Gingrich of Georgia and New York Democrat Joseph Addabbo in the House. By immersing themselves in the technical arcana of defense arguments, they have...
...Dino De Laurentiis (The Serpent's Egg, King Kong) and Italian Actress Silvana Magnano (Bitter Rice, Barabbas) and himself the producer of the 1978 film King of the Gypsies; of injuries received in the mid-air collision of two light planes while he was shooting a documentary on Alaska's annual fish harvest; over Kvichak Bay, Alaska...
...qualified to serve in America's most sensitive diplomatic post? His knowledge of Russian was slim, and his experience in the country was limited to five months in World War II flying lease planes from Moscow to Alaska. An editorial in the New York Times following Watson's appointment noted that it would serve as a discouragement to foreign service officers who have devoted their careers to Communist affairs but added, "Mr. Watson's service at this stage can prove useful...He has impressed Washington officials with the forceful use of (his access to President Carter) while serving as head...
...sophomore year. I knew I hadn't found what I wanted at Harvard. That summer I drove with a high school friend from New York to Alaska in an effort to get as far away from Cambridge as possible. I thought that by traveling a literal distance from Harvard. I might somehow gain a figurative perspective. I was wrong. There were no great revelations by the fire, no profound insights on the road...