Word: bosses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Guapo and his bandidos. Alas, the telegram inviting them to jump down off the screen and into the dusty Mexican streets is garbled in transmission; to the trio it reads like a bid to make a profitable personal appearance. And it arrives when they need money; their studio boss (Joe Mantegna) has fired them for making an outrageous salary demand: payment in cash rather than in freebies...
William Casey, Director of Central Intelligence and boss of the CIA, emerged through the same doors 5 1/2 hours later. He had testified about the growing scandal during all that time without a recess. When it was over, the 73-year-old former New York City lawyer and self-made millionaire seemed drained -- and his inquisitors disturbed. They were appalled mostly by how little the CIA chief professed to know. The head of an intelligence network that has snoops planted in hostile governments around the globe and has eavesdropped on Kremlin officials as they talked on their limousine telephones claimed...
...same observation could be made about the achievements of Casey's friend and boss, Ronald Reagan. Like Reagan, Casey has put himself into a difficult bind about a scandal that occurred on his watch: even while denying his complicity, he is admitting to an appalling ignorance of what went on around...
...contra fund diversions has yet emerged. The main obstacle: many of the congressional witnesses who could be most enlightening persisted in pleading their right under the Fifth Amendment to refuse to answer questions. North, who was fired from the NSC staff when the scandal broke, and his former boss Poindexter, the National Security Adviser, who resigned at the same time, have repeatedly been identified as prime movers in the whole mess; they reiterated their refusal to testify last week. Others who did the same: Richard Secord, a retired Air Force general who was deeply involved in funneling...
...bloc -- have the numerical strength to elect a mayor on their own. That is what happened in 1983, when Washington narrowly won the Democratic nomination in a three-way primary race against former Mayor Jane Byrne and Cook County Prosecutor Richard M. Daley, son of the legendary boss. Chastened, Washington's white opponents are now trying to unite behind a single challenger. Says Chicago Political Scientist Paul Green: "The name of the game is to get Harold Washington one-on-one. That's the only way you can beat...