Word: brotherism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...junk dealer. But Weinstein found a letter in the defense files demonstrating that as early as Dec. 1, 1948, Hiss knew that Priscilla had given the typewriter in April 1938 to the son of a former maid. Says Weinstein: "While the FBI searched frantically for the machine, Hiss's brother Donald, aided by the maid's son, traced the typewriter in February 1949 but said nothing to the lawyers or the authorities. Two months later, Hiss's lawyer, Edward McLean, made a search of his own, found the machine and told the FBI that he had it." Thus, adds Weinstein...
...think this is unfair. We are all humans. A woman cannot call another woman sister without calling me brother. Forgive me this sentimentality; I grew up in the '60s. I believe we are all brothers and sisters, and we are all responsible for one another to some degree. The rampant and brutal indifference shown by some women to the plight of miserable or sick men depresses me. (I recall one professional panhandler, a woman, who said: "I'll always give money to another woman. We're in this together. I wouldn't give money to a man if his clothes...
...Federal Reserve Board. The reason: to give the committee time to investigate an assertion by Chairman William Proxmire that a Textron subsidiary, Bell Helicopter, made a $2.9 million payment to an Iranian sales agency, Air Taxi, that was secretly owned by General Mohammed Khatemi, the Shah's brother-in-law and commander of the Iranian air force (he died in 1975). Miller denies that he ever heard of the general. He said he authorized the payment to compensate the agency for past services and to settle any future claims for commissions. Bell later landed a $500 million contract with...
...Russians and 2,000 Cubans arrived with the hardware, and they may not all be just advisers: both Eritrean and Somalian rebel forces claim to have captured Cuban combat troops. Underscoring Moscow's new urgency about the battle of the Horn, Raul Castro, Fidel's brother and Cuba's Defense Minister, arrived in mid-January, apparently to help Mengistu run his dual war against the rebels and his political opponents in Addis Ababa...
...Feraud has the mentality of a yapping farm dog, and when his wound has healed he forces another duel. And another. There is peace between the two men only in time of war ("Duels between nations take absolute precedence," one of D'Hubert's brother officers says cynically). Feraud remains crazed with hatred, and D'Hubert, though he cannot remember the original cause of the quarrel and is quite willing to forget the feud, continues to dance to honor's tune and his adversary's whim...