Word: bosse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Safe House. Other possible witnesses are becoming hard to reach. Kim Sang Keun's erstwhile boss. Major General Kim Yung Hwan, the KCIA chief in the U.S., was reported being held under virtual house arrest in the Korean embassy in Washington. In Seoul, meanwhile, President Park fired KCIA Boss Shin Jik Soo in an apparent attempt to improve relations with Washington...
...Stewart and Margulis performed menial jobs at relatively low salaries?about $25,000 a year. (They will collect one-third each of the profits from the Phelan book.) They were on the perimeter of the inner circle, but, especially in Stewart's case, they had constant access to the boss; they saw and heard a great deal...
Impressed with the way Lance built roads and reduced the payroll, Carter gave him a major role in his campaign to restructure the entire state government. In the process, Lance developed a reputation for standing up to his boss. Angered by Carter's chronic failure to show gratitude to his staffers, Lance once told the Governor, "I've worked miracles for you, and you never say Thank...
...protesting officers spotted Telly Savalas, TV Supercop Kojak, and enthusiastically hoisted him on their shoulders. "I saw that as a significant act," says a sympathetic member of the police brass who was watching. "Kojak is a guy who talks back, who acts." That is, he gruffly tells his boss (and anyone else) to get out of the way so he can do his job -which is what growing numbers of real-life cops would like...
There were also disclosures of Chiang Ch'ing's hedonistic tastes. Although as culture boss of China in the 1960s she had imposed uplifting revolutionary themes on China's arts, she preferred sexy movies and Kung Fu flicks imported from the decadent West and from Hong Kong. For the millions of Chinese who have endured countless showings of Chiang Ch'ing's ballet, The Detachment of Red Women, on stage, screen and television, this might be the gravest of the charges against...