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Close readers of Notebook will recall that last year a mistaken "crash command" sent a $45 million GLOBAL HAWK pilotless aircraft crashing into the desert. Last week the Air Force detailed another Global Hawk spy-drone embarrassment. This one happened on the ground...
DIED. ROBERT KOMER, 78, President Johnson's aggressive chief of "pacification," the controversial propaganda program aimed at the Vietnamese during the war; in Arlington, Va. A once fiery hawk, he came to view the war as "a strategic disaster...
Kerasiotes will be replaced by Andrew S. Natsios, Cellucci's former administration and finance secretary. Natsios is a budget hawk; he has been responsible for developing and implementing the state's spending plans over the past several years. If anyone is prepared to take over as mammoth a project as the Big Dig, it is Natsios...
What's at issue is not whether the Golden Hill Paugussetts ever existed as a tribe, but whether Quiet Hawk's group is descended from them as a tribe. Historical documents show that as early as 1639 the Paugussetts asked the Governor of Massachusetts to help them recover "squaws" taken into slavery by English settlers. At that time the tribe numbered about 800 members, who fished the Housatonic and Naugatuck rivers and cultivated corn and other vegetables. Sun worshippers, they prayed to the east every morning. Many Paugussetts died fighting in the 1637 Pequot War against the English. After that...
...Quiet Hawk's people claim to be descended from a man named William Sherman, who they say was a member of the original Paugussett tribe. Sherman was born in New York in 1825 and spent his youth whaling before arriving in Trumbull at age 32. It was he who bought the quarter-acre lot in 1875 and preserved it as the tribe's then only reservation. Sherman's race in the 1880 Census was listed as "Indian." He was identified as a Paugussett in his newspaper obituary in 1886, and in two books published shortly before he died...