Word: briefingate
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Maj. Shelley Rogers, a Pentagon spokesperson, said Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney had attended a Pentagon briefing on the confrontation.
Yet there is still a deep-seated reluctance to take drastic measures. Briefing reporters after a Paris conclave on money laundering last September, a senior U.S. official declared that global efforts to trace drug money will have to be balanced against the freedom from unnecessary red tape. Too many controls...
Soviet officials are already meeting in Moscow on a deepening crisis in Afghanistan as, 5,000 miles away in Washington, members of an American task force are rushed by police escort to the Old Executive Office Building. The U.S. President and Vice President have been disabled by a poison-gas...
The show was taped in simultaneous sessions in Washington and Moscow. The participants responded to developments concocted by "control teams" behind the scenes. Koppel headed the team in Washington, and TIME editor at large Strobe Talbott supervised the Soviet operation at the headquarters of the State Committee for Television and...
Party spokesperson Brigitte Zimmermann, briefing reporters on a closed door-session of the party's emergency congress, said Gysi was the only candidate for the post.