Word: edgar
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Tass quoted a Soviet Army deputy chief of staff, Col. Gen. Grigory Krivosheyev, as saying an agreement was struck between Defense Minister Dmitri T. Yazov and Estonian Prime Minister Edgar Savisaar on military service for Estonian men. Tass said the accord will allow some Estonian draftees to serve in Estonia...
Philadelphia Fire by John Edgar Wideman. This fiction revolves around a fact: the May 1985 fire bombing (ordered by a black mayor) of a Philadelphia house occupied by a black organization called Move. But that is only the starting point for a prolonged, dramatic monologue on racism in the U.S. and the possibility that the birth of the nation was accompanied by a genetic disorder...
...University says records of private meetings held between East German leaders and W.J.C. delegations before the Communist regime collapsed show that a representative of the Jewish group expressed support for keeping East Germany a separate state. "Reunification is not on the agenda," Maram Stern, an aide to W.J.C. president Edgar Bronfman, was quoted as telling the East Germans. "The W.J.C. will do everything it can so that it should not come about." Wolffsohn examined the East German documents last summer, but they won't be seen again soon. After unification, the archives came under federal German rules and were sealed...
There were similar mixed messages in other states. In Illinois, Democrat Neil Hartigan promised to remove an unpopular 2% income tax surcharge, while Republican James Edgar admitted he would keep the levy in place. Edgar privately asked George Bush to stay away, fearing the anger that Bush's tax reversal had bred. Voters overwhelmingly wanted a rollback -- but did not trust Hartigan to do it. Edgar won by 52% to 48%. Nebraska's Republican Governor, Kay Orr, went back on her pledge not to raise taxes, as did Florida's Martinez and Governor Mike Hayden in Kansas. All three lost...
...typically, we hear of the deals Paley botched, the employees he treated badly and the hit CBS shows, like All in the Family and The Dukes of Hazzard, that he initially opposed. Even in victory -- like his famous talent raids of the late 1940s, when CBS wooed Jack Benny, Edgar Bergen and other big stars away from NBC -- Paley seems curiously passive and remote. (His role is described in phrases like "Paley agreed instantly" and "Paley loved the idea.") Smith's workmanlike prose fails to give her main character the fascination of either his triumphs or his flaws...