Word: briefings
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According to testimony at the hearing, the engineer and the brakeman of the train were both drinking just before, and possibly during, the brief run from Baton Rouge to the site of the wreck. Moreover, Janet Byrd, a clerk employed by the railroad, not only was in the cab of the engine at the time of the derailment but was at the controls because the engineer had dozed off. The hearing also revealed that both Engineer Edward Robertson and Brakeman Russell Reeves had been suspended several times by the railroad-Robertson for a variety of operational errors, including speed violations...
...Reagan lunched with the Pope's top aide, Agostino Cardinal Casaroli, in Hartford on Aug. 3. On Sept. 13, Weinberger sent Bernardin a carefully worded statement making the same points that Clark made later. In October, retired General Vernon Walters, a State Department troubleshooter, quietly visited Rome to brief Pope John Paul on the Administration's position on nuclear strategy, among other matters. The White House campaign changed the view of neither the bishops nor the Pope...
...brief interview yesterday afternoon, Bradley dismissed speculation that he would be a candidate for president in 1914, saying. "I am running for re-election, that is all." He added that he sees Senator Edward M Kennedy '54 "leading the pack" for the Democratic nomination
...orchestra played Tchaikovsky, the committee members lined up in front of the catafalque where Brezhnev lay amid wreaths and flowers, with row upon row of medals pinned to cushions below his feet. After a brief formal tribute, Andropov led the Politburo members toward the dead man's family. He bent over and kissed Brezhnev's widow Victoria, 75, through her veil. She lifted a hand to her cheek to wipe away tears. Andropov bent to kiss her again, then kissed Brezhnev's daughter Galina. Kirilenko, a leading contender for the succession until sidelined in the past year, burst into tears...
...ethnic Russian, Dolgikh was born in Ilansky, a Trans-Siberian railway town about 2,000 miles east of Moscow. He is thought to be the son of a former senior official in the Ministry of the Interior. After brief service with the Red Army in World War II, he earned a scientific degree from the Mining and Metallurgy Institute in Irkutsk. Sent to the mining-smelting plant in the northern Siberian city of Norilsk in 1958, he won high marks in the Kremlin for his skill in coordinating industrial development in the severe Arctic environment. Dolgikh was appointed party boss...