Word: client
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After some hesitation, Moscow has jumped forcefully into the internal wars between its Ethiopian client, the Marxist regime headed by Lieut. Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam, and the rebel forces that have captured chunks of Ethiopian territory in Eritrea on the Red Sea and the Ogaden region bordering the Somali Democratic Republic. In mid-December, big Antonov and Ilyushin transport planes began wheeling into the airport at Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital. The airlift, which appears to be concluding, has brought iri $850 million worth of arms, including T-34 tanks, field guns, heavy mortars and light missiles. U.S. officials believe...
...Jack Kennedy, who was shocked when Cassini's wife cracked under the strain and killed herself. Both Jack and Joe Kennedy urged mercy for Igor, but Bobby persisted. Finally, Nizer realized that Bobby had gone so far as to have the FBI tap his phone conversations with his client. "I was stunned," he writes, "by this violation of law by the Attorney General in the course of trying to prove a violation by Igor . . . I had to curb my impulse to tell him just what I thought of his tactics and venom. But always in such moments, the lawyer...
What makes Disini's services so valued? It might be his very close friendship with President Ferdinand Marcos, a connection that, according to veteran observers in Manila, was invoked to win a major share of the government's nuclear plant construction contract for Disini's client, Pittsburgh's Westinghouse Electric Corp. Allegations about the suspicious nature of Disini's services recently prompted the U.S. Export-Import Bank, which is providing much of the financing for the project, to ask the Justice Department to determine whether Westinghouse made improper payments to a foreign business agent. Troubled...
...political vendetta. Clearly, her clumsy efforts to re-enter the political arena last week were mainly designed to reinforce that claim. Her attorneys have advised her to challenge the commission's authority to investigate her as a political leader, in the hope of gaining time for their beleaguered client. Ultimately, however, her repudiation at the polls may be followed by public exposure and disgrace...
...Christ," he added: ''It wasn't mysterious. It might have been the same kind of experience as millions of people have who become Christians in a deeply personal way." Says Marabel Morgan of her own experience, which took place when she was working as a beautician and rinsing a client's newly washed hair: "There with the water running I was born again. There was no bolt of lightning, only peace. I was tickled to death...