Word: caseys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...week's end CIA Director William J. Casey, 68, a Reagan political crony who had appointed Hugel against strong opposition within the CIA, and with little if any White House support, was in trouble too. He was the focus of an investigation by the Senate Intelligence Committee, which is dominated by Republicans and headed by Senator Barry Goldwater. The probe also had the backing of Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker. All this was happening despite the insistence by a White House press spokesman that "the President has full confidence in Mr. Casey...
...issue was Casey's judgment in selecting the brash and arrogant Hugel, 56, for such a sensitive job. It entailed deploying CIA agents around the world, recruiting spies behind the Iron Curtain and giving the go-ahead for all covert operations. Also under study was the CIA's apparent failure to uncover allegations of serious impropriety in Hugel's business practices when the agency ran its customary background check. One main objective of the screening process is to find out if a prospective CIA official could in any way be blackmailed-and "blackmail" was precisely what Hugel...
...disgusted and bereft at their sudden cultural deprivation. Sportswriter Maury Allen of the New York Post says sadly: "There's a tremendous emptiness without baseball. Its absence creates a big void, and nothing, I mean nothing, can replace it." Americans are trying, of course. Former Texas Congressman Bob Casey, an Astros fan, is using his baseball time to burrow into a novel the size of a steamer trunk, Shogun. What are the stats on a samurai? Attorney Jim Murphy, who normally attends about 75% of Houston's home games, has found a peculiar substitute for baseball: opera...
...after López Portillo's farewell meeting with Reagan at the White House. A group of Reagan's top advisers assembled in the Oval Office for an hour and 15 minutes. Present were Haig, Allen, Vice President George Bush, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, CIA Director William Casey and the President's troika of Aides Edwin Meese, James Baker and Mike Deaver. They reached a consensus with little argument: Israel should be penalized...
First pitcher to fracture a rib while watching a runner steal second base-Craig Swan of the New York Mets, struck in the back by Catcher Ron Hodges' errant throw, a feat reminiscent of Casey Stengel's original Amazin' Mets...