Word: bosse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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SOUTHERN EUROPE. Communists have made gains in Italy, Greece and, most significantly, in Portugal, a strategically vital NATO ally. Last week radical Premier Vasco dos Santos Gonçalves chose a new 21-member Cabinet, including Communist Party Leader Alvaro Cunhal, who is the most rigidly Marxist boss in Western Europe. The further lurch to the left increased fears that Portugal would eventually become a Communist dictatorship. In Washington, Kissinger spoke of "an evolution in which there is a danger that the democratic process may become a sham, and in which parties are getting into a dominant position whose interests...
...standards, Williams is formidable, being legendary for his ability to mesmerize a jury. Some of his clients have been the late Senator Joseph McCarthy, Labor Boss Jimmy Hoffa, and the Washington Post in the case of the Pentagon papers...
...their credit, papers that held the sub story at least ran articles last week attempting to explain why their editors and publishers bought the CIA line. Stephen Isaacs of The Washington Post quoted his boss, publisher Katharine Graham, as saying Colby's argument was "rational...
That was apparently the clincher, because Colby received cooperation from the news executives he contacted, and later, executives would cite the continuing nature of the sub salvage as reason for holding their stories. As Times managing editor A. M. Rosenthal told one of his reporters, who used his boss's quote in a story headlined "C.I.A. Tried to Get Press/To Hold Up Salvage Story." The Times "believed that in this case the advantage of immediate public disclosure did not outweigh the considerations of disclosing an important ongoing operation...
...lean on. Heurtebise, clad in blue overalls, shuffles around in a loose-ankled, slightly pigeon-toed walk, with his hands clasped tightly against his waist. The unworldly astonishment never fades from his pudgy face. A natty clerk displays an uninspiredly clever knack for his work that his pompous boss lacks, and briefly supplants the others with an act verging on slapstick. Fortunately, he reins the performance in before the proportions of his minor character become too inflated...