Word: griffin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...effort to free the hostages was in the hands of the FBI and local police, under the command of Police Chief Maurice Cullinane. Attorney General Griffin Bell and FBI Director Clarence Kelley were kept briefed, but the night-and-day negotiations were conducted by seven men: Cullinane; Deputy Police Chief Robert Rabe; Nick Stames, chief of the FBI's Washington field office; FBI Agent Pat Mullany, the bureau's most skilled hostage negotiator; plus three diplomats whose admirable intervention may well have brought about the salvation of the hostages. It was, at first glance, an unlikely trio...
Other than signaling the beginning of its campaign against Galante, the DEA may have been interested in pushing the story for another reason: to save itself from extinction. Early last month Attorney General Griffin Bell, noting that he considered drugs "the biggest crime problem in America," announced that he was looking into the possibility of dismantling the agency, an arm of the Justice Department, and letting the FBI alone handle narcotics investigations...
...spare King's widow, Coretta, any further embarrassment. A Department of Justice investigation concluded that the tapes were "very probably" illegally obtained; they are thus as much a blot on Hoover's memory as on King's. Why aren't they simply destroyed? Attorney General Griffin Bell ought...
...squads traded the next two bouts, Tom Bixby (150 lbs.) falling to Minuteman Kevin Griffin, 6-0, before Jim Corcoran (158 lbs.) won easily for the Crimson, 9-3. With four bouts remaining, the team score was knotted...
Harvard finally scored in the second chukker when Captain Bill Griffin worked the ball in along the boards and neatly popped it into the goal. The chukker ended with Skidmore holding its virtually insurmountable eight-goal lead...