Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...junket to Zaire last March, Savage found himself in the company of the 28-year-old volunteer, who was assigned to brief him on Peace Corps activities. She says that during a two-hour tour of the night spots of Kinshasa, Zaire's capital city, Savage fondled her in his chauffeur-driven car and asked for sex. "He kept saying, 'That's the way the world works,' " she told the Washington Post. The woman says she escaped Savage's advances when an embassy worker intervened. The next day U.S. Ambassador William Harrop rebuked Savage, and soon afterward the volunteer...
...abandon ship. But Hazelwood calmed the crew and rigged a makeshift antenna. After radioing shore, he guided the Chester out of the storm. Then, with the safety of his crew and cargo in mind, Hazelwood followed the storm back to New York -- and, to his surprise, ran into a brief storm of criticism from dollar-conscious superiors at Exxon who had wanted Hazelwood to continue the journey southward...
...rainy Budapest, beneath the huge statue of Lajos Kossuth, Hungary's greatest figure of independence, the President bounded down from the stage after brief remarks, stripped off his borrowed raincoat and wrapped it around a soaked, startled and utterly smitten old woman, who had to fend off other onlookers grabbing for her new prize...
Last week, as in all recent weeks, housecleaning swamped the rest of his agenda. The Secretary did win a brief respite from his headaches by traveling to Detroit, where he achieved a rare feat for a Republican leader: he received three standing ovations from the N.A.A.C.P.'s annual convention. Kemp admitted candidly that the G.O.P. was "nowhere to be found" in the great civil rights struggles of the 1960s and vowed that his party will change. He called on South Africa to "let our people go." But such pleasantries inevitably faded as he addressed the mess at HUD, earnestly vowing...
Amid the arguments in the bitter struggle, court documents filed in Delaware gave a vivid picture of the two-year merger talks between Time and Warner. A Time brief showed that the two partners broke off negotiations in August 1988 over Time's insistence that Warner Chairman Steven Ross set a date for stepping down as co-chief executive of the merged company to make way for Time President N.J. Nicholas to hold the chief executive's job alone. Not until Ross agreed last January to step aside five years after the merger were the talks able to proceed...