Word: friends
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only is Jessica not interested, she has a white-faced bull friend by whom she has borne two calves. Says Carrara: "She is very good-looking." Even if she relented, the mating would not produce a hybrid moose-cow, since the animals' chromosomes do not match up. Time is running out as well for the lovelorn moose. The end of the mating season is at hand, and he is expected to drift back to his own kind...
...most prominent is Lieut. Colonel Oliver North, 43, a Marine who earned the Silver Star and two Purple Hearts -- among other medals -- in the Viet Nam War. He is deputy director for political-military affairs on the NSC. A close friend and military comrade of former National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane, North arouses strong emotions in people. "Nobody can be indifferent to Ollie," says the wife of a top foreign diplomat. "Either you love him, or you hate him with a passion...
Gorton had recently been promising voters that "his friend in the White House" was going to eliminate Washington from a list of states that might be saddled with a nuclear dump site. Reagan, however, indicated during his speech in support of Gorton that the state would not get special consideration. Gorton immediately lost his slim lead and never recovered...
...scandal-loving British press was gleeful, especially the News of the World. Its story included transcripts of phone conversations that had Archer suggesting that Coghlan wear a green leather suit and meet a friend of his at London's Victoria Station. After accepting an envelope stuffed with (pounds)50 notes in view of a long-lens camera, however, the woman returned it, telling both Archer's envoy and a hidden microphone, "I can't keep running...
Amid the furor, Yamani last week telephoned a close friend in Geneva, where OPEC meets and the former oil minister keeps an apartment. "What's there to say," Yamani remarked. "It's the King's decision, and that's life." He added that he would "be around" when the OPEC ministers reconvene in Geneva early in December. Yamani's friend was philosophical: "Here's one man who won't have to worry about keeping himself busy," he said. "Every headhunter ) in Big Oil must be after him." To be sure. Big Oil and Mr. Oil know each other well...