Word: edwin
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Secord returned to Washington in 1978 to head the Air Force's military- assistance and sales program. There he formed a relationship with Edwin Wilson, the CIA operative turned arms merchant now serving 52 years in federal prison for illegally selling arms to Libya. Secord's career stalled in 1982, when he came under investigation by a federal grand jury for allegedly conspiring with Wilson and others to defraud the U.S. Government of $8 million on an Egyptian arms-shipping contract. He was suspended from duty for a short time, although he was never indicted; he was reinstated with...
...Louisiana's department of environmental quality sent inspectors to examine the gunk. Although the bales consisted primarily of paper, investigators discovered hospital items -- syringes, bedpans -- that could pose a health hazard. The bales were also beginning to ooze, and inspectors feared the scum would leak into the river. Governor Edwin Edwards half jokingly threatened to deploy National Guardsmen on the levees with orders to shoot if the barge tried to dock. As the vessel meandered about the Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana Attorney General William Guste trashed federal authorities. "The Environmental Protection Agency was not watching it at all," he said...
Attorney General Edwin Meese had earlier sought to send Linnas anywhere but the Soviet Union. Two weeks ago Meese appeared to have found an alternative when Linnas' family said Panama was willing to accept him. But after the World Jewish Congress decried the deal as tantamount to sanctuary for a war criminal, Panama reneged on the agreement. With no country willing to accept him, and his legal maneuvers to stay in the U.S. exhausted, Linnas had no alternative but to return...
Investigators found evidence that Waldheim "participated in persecutions for rasons of race or religion under the Nazi regime," Attorney General Edwin Meese III said yesterday in Brussels...
Senior Correspondents: Edwin M. Reingold, Frederick Ungeheuer...