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In fact, Pacepa was no ordinary economic envoy. He was a lieutenant general in the Rumanian security police and a close confidant of President Nicolae Ceauşescu. He may have also been a longtime spy for the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, which probably spirited him out of West Germany...
In the first few months of his presidency, Jimmy Carter was viewed with fond and hopeful pride by the leaders of organized labor, who felt they had been decisive in his victory at the polls. "We were in a state of euphoria," recalls Al Zack, AFL-CIO spokesman and a...
The announcements by Radio Kabul in Persian and Pushtu were brief but to the point: tanks and infantry loyal to a "military revolutionary council" had surrounded the presidential palace in Afghanistan's capital. President Mohammed Daoud, 68, and his younger brother and political confidant, Mohammed Nairn, had been killed...
Madigan sees no conflict in his dual role as press critic and confidant to the powerful. "The whole spectrum of reporting today is so violently anti-Establishment that anyone who attempts to set the facts out becomes an apologist," he complains. Madigan also likes to give his colleagues a taste...
Sound political sense and meticulous attention to detail are characteristic of Clifford and among the reasons that he has been the trusted confidant of four Presidents. His imposing demeanor (a Washington lawyer once said that listening to Clifford was like listening to God) contrasts with his relatively modest background. Son...