Word: bernards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...after the election, Washington was host at a unity luncheon. He was flanked by the two rivals he had defeated in the Democratic primary last February: Jane Byrne, the departing mayor, and Richard Daley, son of the legendary boss. Bernard Epton, last Tuesday's Republican loser, skulked off to Florida, leaving his brother to fill in at the lunch. Epton's lack of grace seemed to diminish rather than heighten the tensions: at that moment, it was hard to argue that the better man had lost...
Rolls dealers welcomed the price cuts, but they do not expect a dramatic rise in sales. They point out that for most Rolls buyers, who in the past have included George Bernard Shaw, Ernest Hemingway, Greta Garbo and Reggie Jackson, price remains a secondary consideration...
...finally decided to get back into the sporting scene--after reading period his sophomore year--when his roomate Bernard Goodwyn, a Crimson thinelad, urged him to try track...
Police found a military ID card identifying the dead man as Lieut. Colonel Bernard Nut, 47, the chief of the Direction Generate de la Securite Exterieure, the French equivalent of the CIA, for all of southeastern France. But investigators came across precious few other clues to help crack the Nut case. The intelligence officer's .357 Magnum revolver was found 15 ft. from his body, ruling out the possibility of suicide. And even though three shots had been fired from the gun, no bullet was found in Nut's body. An autopsy revealed that he had eaten...
...between the French crackdown and expulsions elsewhere in Western Europe. French officials pointed out that the expelled Soviets had been under investigation long before Kuzichkin came in from the cold. Another hypothesis to help explain Mitterrand's move was the unresolved murder in mid-February of Lieut. Colonel Bernard Nut, a top French agent, although officials in Paris insisted that the incident was not "decisive" (see box). Analysts also rejected the theory that Mitterrand had been angered by the arrest a week earlier of a 25-year-old French archivist, Patrick Guerrier, who had been caught passing classified documents...