Word: edwin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...communications expert for the CIA. He left the agency in 1968, worked in electronics and computers, overcame a struggle with alcoholism, and in 1976 was coaxed into the business of exporting high-speed communications and computer gear. His scheming partners in InterTechnology, Inc., were two former CIA undercover agents: Edwin P. Wilson, 52, who had helped to organize the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba, and Frank E. Terpil, 41, who had worked overseas for the agency as a communications technician. Wilson, known as "the ice-man" at the agency, was a cold yet charming operative who kept...
...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...
...phoned Treasury Secretary Regan to report that the Democrats seemed ready to go beyond a one-year reduction-but not so far as three years. The Treasury Secretary replied unenthusiastically: "Well, I'm not sure we can work with you, Danny." On Wednesday morning, however, Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese, breakfasting with reporters, said that the Administration would at least "look at" a two-year plan...
...variant of the Kemp-Roth plan-a threeyear, 30% tax cut-which does not enjoy the support that the budget cuts did in the Congress or the country. In fact, all the major players-Rostenkowski, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Robert Dole, Treasury Secretary Donald Regan and White House Counsellor Edwin Meese-hoped to settle the issue by consensus...
...repeatedly affirmed three basic principles about nuclear weapons: not to make them, possess them or allow them into the country. In 1960, with the signing of the U.S.-Japan Security Treaty, Washington agreed not to "introduce" nuclear weapons into Japan. Two weeks ago, however, former U.S. Ambassador to Japan Edwin O. Reischauer revealed that the two countries have ever since been living a convenient lie. In an interview with Tokyo's Mainichi Shimbun, Reischauer asserted that U.S. naval vessels carrying nuclear weapons have routinely visited Japanese ports-with Tokyo's tacit approval...