Word: bushed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cope with greater congressional scrutiny and with increased demands from press and public for information about it. How should he deal with these problems? TIME asked five former CIA directors what advice they might have for the new man. Three responded-John McCone, 75, William Colby, 53, and George Bush, 52. Richard Helms, 63, thought it was inadvisable to speak for the record. James Schlesinger, 48, was too absorbed with energy problems as part of the new Carter Administration...
...three who did comment were cautionary but essentially upbeat. "There are enormous problems," says Bush. "Problems of judgment, problems of management. But I don't see any insurmountable ones that a prudent person can't handle...
...Charlie, 40, has had many close calls in his ten years as a helicopter pilot in the Alaskan bush, but his luck ran out when a sudden gust of wind caught his chopper near Juneau, causing it to crash in flames. Nearly three-quarters of his body surface was charred, and doctors at Seattle's Harborview Hospital burn center had serious doubts that he would survive. Yet, after 30 long months of treatment, including ten operations just to reconstruct his burned hands, Charlie is back in Alaska piloting helicopters...
...George Bush, 52, former Texas oil operator, Congressman, Republican national chairman and U.S. envoy to Peking who in 1975 became CIA director...
...Assault. Although M.P.L.A. forces and the Cubans control every city and town in the south, their garrisons in the bush are isolated, and roads linking them are constantly harassed by UNITA forces. The Luanda government has launched an all-out assault in southern Angola in an effort to finish off the resistance. So far its main achievement has been to terrorize innocent civilians. MiG fighter-bombers have napalmed entire villages near Angola's border with Namibia (South West Africa); herds of cattle have been slaughtered, not only to feed the attacking forces but to punish the pro-UNlTA tribesmen...