Word: albert
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DESCRIPTION: Number of delegates won by Michael Dukakis, Jesse Jackson, Albert Gore Jr., Paul Simon, Richard Gephardt and others; gives odds of election of each and short assessment of each candidate's campaign; faces of candidates are shown in black and white illustration mounted on dice...
...targets were Ronald Reagan's former National Security Adviser John Poindexter; fired NSC Aide Oliver North; and two arms dealers, former Air Force Major General Richard Secord and Iranian-born Businessman Albert Hakim. They were charged with conspiring to defraud the U.S. by establishing and concealing a plan for illegally supporting the Nicaraguan contras. The federal grand jury also charged all four defendants with theft of Government property for siphoning off more than $17 million in proceeds from U.S. arms sales to Iran, and with wire fraud resulting from the movement of the money through Swiss bank accounts. The three...
DESCRIPTION: Summary of charges against Iran-contra suspects Oliver North, John Poindexter, Richard Secord and Albert Hakim; color illustrations: map of Iran backed by missiles; three men in see-no-evil, speak-no-evil, hear-no- evil pose stand at papershredder; three men holding dollar sign...
What's in a name? The Secret Service's secret code names for the candidates tend to be apt. Albert Gore is known as "Sawhorse," reflecting his stolid, down-home style, and George Bush is called "Timber Wolf," evoking his slightly frenetic doggedness. Jesse Jackson's moniker is a bit more mysterious: "Pontiac." Says an agent of his superiors: "It was probably just something they came up with one day over lunch." Or perhaps it has something to do with the ads that tout, "We build excitement...
...Mickey Mouse Club, Wednesday was officially dubbed "Anything Can Happen Day." But for the star-crossed Democrats, it was Super Tuesday that ushered in the season of anything-can-happen politics. The members of the Democratic troika, Michael Dukakis, Albert Gore and Jesse Jackson, each declared victory as they split almost equally the 20-state delegate harvest. But the fates decreed that the 9.5 million Democratic voters would deprive any contender of the kind of breakthrough that would unfuddle the nomination muddle. In fact, the verdict on Super Tuesday for the Democrats, unlike that for the Republicans, may be that...