Word: forli
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Calling for $157.5 billion in defense spending authority in fiscal 1981, the President announced the creation of a new force that could respond quickly to emergencies anywhere in the world. The Rapid Deployment Force, or RDF, will have no units specifically assigned to it; but the commander, a lieutenant general...
Briefing Senators on the new strategy, Defense Secretary Harold Brown emphasized the growing need for the U.S. to be able, should it choose, to bring military power to bear rapidly overseas. "In some cases," said Brown, "that might be to turn the tide of battle. In other cases -we would...
Awash in cash, some executives of an oil company have been spending it in unusual ways: extravagant gifts, liquor, gambling money, home appliances and other perks for themselves and their friends. So federal investigators have been told by a former middle manager of Amoco, a marketing subsidiary of Standard Oil...
Ken D. Anderson, 49, who in 1977 left as Amoco's $44,500 manager of field training in the Atlanta office, says that he was "paymaster" for a group of executives who regularly dipped into an often replenished $400,000 "training fund" that was nominally under his control. The...
Bolstering his charges with copies of company documents that he accumulated during the last 5½ of his 23 years with Amoco, Anderson claims that some of the money went for: