Word: generality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...former Director William Webster and his successor, William Sessions, approved the investigation under the guidance of William Weld, then chief of the Justice Department's criminal division, and Deputy Attorney General Arnold Burns. Both officials resigned from their posts in late March, after maintaining that Attorney General Meese may have violated conflict-of- interest laws. Word of the inquiry was kept away from Meese until just before Burns left. The reason: their boss was mentioned in one taped conversation between suspects in the probe. Only after investigators were satisfied that Meese was not implicated did Burns brief the Attorney General...
After getting details of the budding Pentagon scandal from Carlucci last week, President Reagan summoned to the White House his top law-enforcement officials, including the Attorney General, the FBI director and U.S. Attorney Henry Hudson, who is coordinating the grand jury work in Alexandria, Va. Reagan asked for a "thorough investigation" of the allegations and said he was "very concerned" about them...
...army of Washington-based consultants perform an indispensable chore when they are honest. Sometimes dubbed "rent-a-general" agencies, the firms hire former Pentagon brass and braid, then charge as much as $1,000 a day for their advice. Many of the consultants worked in procurement and retain close contacts with their former colleagues. They know both the procedural intricacies of how contracts are processed and the technical needs of the services. "You almost have to be an insider to understand it," says Spratt. Without these middlemen, the military's complex procurement system might not work...
...passed "classified and/or confidential" information to Thomas Gunn, vice president for marketing at McDonnell Aircraft Corp. in St. Louis. That information helped McDonnell Douglas formulate its plans to sell updated F-18 fighter aircraft to Switzerland and Korea. Paisley allegedly also passed along details of a competing proposal by General Dynamics to sell its F-16 fighters to the same potential buyers. He was said to have acquired a secret study on the helicopter needs of the Marine Corps and its advanced chopper, dubbed Killer Egg, to give McDonnell Douglas an edge in future sales. Six FBI agents spent four...
...next spring. Piaggio, which has headquarters in Genoa, Italy, hopes to receive U.S. certification for its Avanti model by the end of the year. Both planes, each seating seven to ten passengers, are expected to be warmly welcomed in the corporate market. Says Henry Ogrodzinski, communications director of the General Aviation Manufacturers Association: "It looks like ((both firms)) have come up with a winner...