Word: bushed
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Since Carter made a campaign issue out of criticizing FBI Chief Clarence Kelley, a new head there seems certain. Most often mentioned is former New York City Police Commissioner Patrick Murphy, 56. One possible holdover, the rumors have it, is CIA Director George Bush, 52, whose lucid intelligence briefing impressed Carter. Besides, if Bush went, the CIA would be getting its third director in a year...
Smith's claim that the Kissinger package is an inviolable whole promptly ran into vehement opposition from the black nationalists. With some of them coming directly from Rhodesian prisons or guerrilla bases in the bush, they were in no mood to approve a transition plan that would give Smith the opportunity to dominate events in Rhodesia for two more years. The African National Council's delegation, led by Bishop Abel Muzorewa, reflected much of the blacks' apprehension when it warned that Smith had come to Geneva merely to "carry out a gigantic fraud aimed at confusing world...
...quietly and steadily continued to develop what may be the largest private landholding in the Western Hemisphere. Ludwig himself remains inaccessible to interviewers, not to mention photographers. Nonetheless, TIME'S Rio de Janeiro bureau chief Barry Hillenbrand recently managed to tour Ludwig's Amazon empire by Jeep and bush plane. His report...
When a Russian pilot flew a MiG-25 to northern Japan last month and asked for political asylum in the U.S., CIA Director George Bush hailed the defection as an "intelligence bonanza." According to euphoric Pentagon spokesmen, an examination of the plane and interrogation of the pilot would yield vital secrets about Soviet air-weapons technology. But U.S. experts who were dispatched to Japan for a three-week study of the aircraft have come to a different and surprising conclusion: the much-touted superplane brought to the West by Soviet Air Force 1st Lieut. Viktor Belenko is, in many respects...
...fighting has waxed and waned ever since the late 1960s, when guerrillas began fighting to bring back exiled Dictator Juan Domingo Perón. The two main factions: 1) the Montoneros (bush fighters), who originally supported Perón but turned increasingly leftward and broke away after his return to power in 1973; and 2) the smaller ERP (Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo, or People's Revolutionary Army), a Cuban-influenced outfit with Trotskyite ties...