Word: firsthand
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...light of the controversy surrounding the events which culminated in the cancellation of the RUS women's dinner to have been held March 15 in Mather House dining hall, I feel it necessary to give a firsthand account of the situation. Hopefully, the H-R community, when presented with the correct facts, will understand what the Radcliffe Union of Students women's dinners are trying to do for the women of Radcliffe and not against the men of Harvard...
...told a far different story. They charged that the victims had been taken to an army barracks, where they were bullied, beaten and finally shot. Some reports even had it that Amin himself had pulled the trigger, but Amin angrily denied the charge, and there were, of course, no firsthand witnesses. Amin refused to allow the archbishop's family to view his body before soldiers buried the sealed coffin in his native village. Some Ugandans doubted that the coffin contained Luwum's remains; they suspected that Amin had destroyed the evidence of murder by burning the body...
Just how had the money been spent? Says one U.S. official with firsthand knowledge of the deal: "Sure, some of it went to satisfy some worldly appetites. But a lot of it, a lot more, was disbursed in a way that guaranteed us access in some extremely sensitive and useful areas. O.K., call it buying friendship. But that's what overt aid is too, isn't it? I know what we got for that dough, and it was worth every goddam cent...
...astute campaign director, Hamilton Jordan (see box page 34), drafted an uncannily prescient strategy for the primaries. About a year later, as Democratic congressional campaign chairman for the 1974 election, Carter traveled all over, meeting party officials and power brokers, observing politics outside the South, learning firsthand the issues that bothered voters...
...Wilson's firsthand impressions of the job he held longer than any other peacetime Prime Minister in this century (seven years and nine months), TIME London Bureau Chief Herman Nickel called on the former Oxford don at his small town house in Westminster's Lord North Street. Wilson, in shirtsleeves, opened the door himself. Apologizing for the mess of paper piled high on the dining table-the contents of his desk at No. 10-he ushered his guest into a cozy, wood-paneled living room. There he settled into an easy chair, lit his pipe and talked. Excerpts...