Word: harold
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...Soviet move against the two newsmen, the New York Times's Craig R. Whitney and the Baltimore Sun's Harold D. Piper, was unwarranted and unprecedented. The complaint charged them with slander in their coverage in May of Dissident Zviad Gamsakhurdia's purported confession of anti-Soviet activities, even though their dispatches appeared only...
...stick, it was carried by Defense Secretary Harold Brown-and quite a stick it was: an 18-ft. cruise missile that is capable, in Brown's words, of splitting the center line of a runway 800 miles from its launch site. Brown flew out to New Mexico's Tularosa Basin for a highly publicized demonstration of the U.S. Navy's sleek Tomahawk cruise missile. As big jack rabbits nibbled unconcernedly at the sagebrush in the blazing morning sun, a camouflage-painted, torpedo-shaped object whistled barely 100 ft. above the White Sands Missile Range at 500 m.p.h...
...Army Clifford Alexander, he continued to emphasize the idea of harmony in his Administration's policymaking. At a Chamber of Commerce luncheon in Fort Worth the day before the maneuvers, Carter told an audience of 5,000: "There is overwhelming cooperation and compatibility between Secretary Vance, Dr. Brzezinski, Harold Brown and others who help me shape foreign policy...
...parliamentarian, globetrotting barrister and member of a remarkable political family; after choking on a sandwich; in Hong Kong, where he was on legal business. The son of a Liberal statesman, Dingle became an M.P. at 26. He swung to the Labor bench in 1956 and served as Prime Minister Harold Wilson's Solicitor General. When his younger brothers Hugh and Michael also became prominent in government, Tory critics joked that they were the country's "three Left feet...
Last week, however, Tony Pro was convicted of murder by a jury in Kingston, N.Y., and sent to languish among the other losers in an upstate jail. Found guilty of murder with him was Harold ("Kayo") Konigsberg, 56, a New Jersey loan shark and extortionist...