Word: branches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hugh Sloan Jr., 41, Haldeman aide and treasurer of Nixon re-election committee who disclosed Liddy's withdrawal of campaign funds for Watergate snooping, cooperated with investigators. Now president of Budd Canada, branch of car-and truck-frame company. "There was a lot of personal tragedy involved," he says of Watergate. "It created a learning experience that one might not have chosen, but that certainly was a valuable...
...addition to electing 71 male students, Harvard's Alpha branch-founded in 1781 and the oldest continuous Phi Beta Kappa chapter in the nation-extended honorary memberships to Konrad Bloch, Higgins Professor of Biochemistry; John E. Dowling '57, professor of Biology, Ben Zion Gold, director of Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel and chaplin for the ceremony; Alexander Duncan Langmuin '31, a former visiting professor of epidemology; and Swenson...
...which an Iranian victory over Iraq is causing fear and consternation throughout the region. Saddam Hussein may somehow survive in spite of his army's defeat, but he is vulnerable because he is a Sunni Muslim in a country whose population is 60% Shi'ite, the branch to which Iran's Ayatullah belongs. Although Saddam Hussein could be replaced by another Sunni, the gulf states are most worried by the thought of a Shi'ite government coming to power in Baghdad, thereby creating the conditions for a Shi'ite alliance that would include Iran, Iraq...
...serve in that post since 1958. Fedorchuk joined the secret police in the Ukraine in 1939, and served in military counterintelligence during the war. Right after the war he was transferred to occupied Austria and Germany. Following his appointment as head of the Ukrainian KGB in 1970, his branch of the secret police gained a reputation for particularly brutal repression of dissidents and religious groups. Fedorchuk is now expected to be elevated to the Central Committee and possibly even to the Politburo...
...public appearances were the most elaborate that Britain had ever mounted. The police were clearly anticipating publicity-seeking demonstrations, and perhaps even ugly scuffles designed to embarrass the Pope and tarnish the ecumenical gloss of the visit. Most Britons support the Pope's trip, but Special Branch police were watchful of a faction of anti-Pope fanatics, especially in Liverpool and Glasgow. "We are expecting trouble," said one security spokesman...