Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...overlook a young boy. "Mikhail Sergeyevich," she said in her high-pitched voice. Her husband turned around, greeted the child and invited him to Moscow. Her thoroughness can be irritating too. At a State Department lunch in Washington, Raisa upset Secretary of State George Shultz by having a brief conversation with each of the 180 people on the receiving line. Lunch was delayed for hours...
...court's pronouncement involved the garbage of Billy Greenwood of Laguna Beach, Calif. In 1984, after learning from an informant that Greenwood might be dealing drugs and after observing a parade of cars making brief nocturnal stops at his posh hilltop home, Police Investigator Jenny Jones asked the local refuse collector to turn over the brown plastic trash bags in front of the house. Clawing through the contents with rubber gloves, officers uncovered a rich nest of drug-related paraphernalia: razor blades, straws containing cocaine residue, and phone bills listing calls to people with drug records. Based on this evidence...
...most bizarre episodes, Seurat was allowed a brief visit in August 1985 with his wife and daughters in Beirut, and then returned to the cell loaded down with sociology books. It was the last time he saw his family. A month later, he was deathly ill with hepatitis. A Lebanese Jewish doctor, Elie Hallat, who was also a hostage, pleaded in vain for Seurat's release. As his condition worsened, a Shi'ite commander volunteered a transfusion. "You are becoming a Shi'ite," joked a captor after Seurat was given blood. In fact, the researcher was dying. By then French...
...mother and a Jewish father who imported hams and cheeses from Europe. The Salingers were well off, and Sonny, as Jerome David was sometimes called, had New York City as his playground. There were the underachieving school years at Valley Forge Military Academy (the Pencey Prep of Catcher), the brief attendance at New York University and Ursinus College, and enrollment in Burnett's short-story course at Columbia, where Hamilton assembles a sketch of an "on-the-make young college drop-out plotting his first literary career moves...
...yesterday's brief news conference, the president also said, "I don't guide my life" by astrology but he did not disavow believing...