Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plots to oust him had circulated so often during the 16-month rule of Guatemalan President Efrain Rios Montt that observers lost count of the actual attempts. Had there been seven? Eight? Ten? Whatever the tally, last week's coup turned out to be for keeps. After a brief gun duel outside the National Palace in Guatemala City, the country's military leaders toppled Rios Montt and replaced him with Defense Minister Oscar Humberto Mejía Victores...
Prospects for the agreement first glimmered at a Houston barbecue four years ago. Deng Xiaoping, Communist Party Vice Chairman of the People's Republic of China, who was making a brief U.S. tour, was introduced to Armand Hammer, 85, chairman of Occidental Petroleum. Brushing aside the interpreter, Deng said, "No introduction is necessary. We know Dr. Hammer as the American who helped Lenin. Why don't you come .to China and help us as well?" Hammer, whose close trade ties with the Soviet Union stretch back for more than half a century, said that he would be happy...
...brief against the prosecution is stronger. Hoover wanted his agents to arrest Julius Rosenberg without a warrant. "Strict observance of technicalities in favor of openly avowed conspirators is shocking," he wrote at the bottom of a memo, without attributing the source of the avowals. U.S. Attorney Irving Saypol, who prosecuted the case, made prejudicial statements to the press. FBI and Atomic Energy Commission files indicate that Trial Judge Irving R. Kaufman conducted improper discussions with a Justice Department official and with other judges. In many ways, Radosh and Milton make Kaufman the heavy of their book. He had the onerous...
...episode in a project commemorating the Korean War. His purpose: to convey the hardships suffered by families pulled apart in the conflict. People were selected to appear on-camera for about 15 seconds at a time, carrying placards inscribed with their names, the names of the missing and a brief description of how they were separated. Announcers read the placards to viewers while the cameras zoomed in on the faces of the searchers. Fourteen telephone lines were open, awaiting inquiries from viewers who thought they were being sought, or who recognized the placard bearers...
William Least Heat Moon is the author of Blue Highways (Atlantic-Little, Brown), a presentation of a journey on the back roads of America. TIME asked him to describe a brief journey to the back country of Japan...