Word: friends
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...anything on a dare. He'd go to a party wearing a red taffeta dress." Byrne's taste in wardrobe tamed down as his musical inclinations became more focused. Frantz had fantasized about forming a rock band. He and Byrne provided music for a film a friend was making, Frantz recalls, "about his girlfriend being run over by a car." The way Weymouth remembers it, "By the end of the session, Chris said to David, because, you know, David didn't talk very much, 'Look, let's start a band.' It clicked." Says Frantz of that historic moment: "We started...
...April of 1984 the elder Goldfarb exchanged farewell presents with an American friend, U.S. News & World Report Correspondent Nicholas Daniloff. This led the KGB to ask Goldfarb to invite Daniloff to his apartment, apparently so agents could plant documents on the reporter. Unlike another Soviet acquaintance of Daniloff's, Goldfarb refused. The KGB then raided Goldfarb's apartment, seized his bacteria collection and accused him of planning to take material "of national security importance" out of the country...
Last July, Alex Goldfarb appealed to Armand Hammer, 88, chairman of Occidental Petroleum Corp. and a friend of Soviet leaders for some 60 years, for help. Last week, when Hammer was in the Soviet Union, he met Anatoly Dobrynin, the former Soviet Ambassador to the U.S. "I'd like to take Mr. Goldfarb home with me tomorrow," said Hammer. Replied Dobrynin: "That's impossible." Said Hammer: "Anatoly, I'm accustomed to doing the impossible." Later, Dobrynin telephoned Hammer to say, "Permission granted." Hammer rushed to tell Goldfarb, who was in a hospital with multiple ailments, including failing eyesight, diabetes...
...Thomas, Washington bureau chief for Newsweek, rely heavily on anecdotes and quotations to convey the nuances of personality and politics. Harriman, son of an American robber baron, was hampered by mumbled diction and a seeming inattention to details. Lovett, who would serve as Secretary of Defense, was a childhood friend of % Harriman's. Acheson, Secretary of State from 1949 to 1953, was more responsible for the Marshall Plan and the Truman Doctrine than the general and President whose names are forever associated with the policies...
...consequences. McCloy, then Assistant Secretary of War, shaped a vague "declaration" to Japan that was agreeable to other U.S. officials but that did nothing to avert the use of the Bomb. Bohlen, a career man in the Foreign Service, was instrumental in getting the views of his lifelong friend and fellow Ambassador to Moscow George Kennan accepted in Washington. "A curious blend of arrogance and insecurity, haughtiness and self-pity" is how Isaacson and Thomas describe Kennan. Yet they have no doubts about his unmatched foresight. He predicted the Sino- Soviet split and accurately saw that Russia would continue...