Word: houstons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...criminal who murdered my sister and orphaned her three children during a housebreaking showed no remorse. He is alive, soon to be free. By contrast, my sister has been slaughtered, and her family is still suffering. Gregory C. Meyer Fort Sam Houston, Texas...
...Stacy A. Alexander Houston...
...Houston, Wilson, 54, was convicted of shipping 20 tons of plastic explosives from the city's Intercontinental Airport to Tripoli in 1977. In Dallas, Smalley, 42, was charged with conspiring to smuggle 100 tanks to Iran and 8,300 antitank missiles to its foe Iraq. Both offered similar alibis: they were motivated by patriotism rather than profit and believed, their lawyers claimed, that they were involved in covert operations sanctioned by the U.S. Government...
Prosecutors termed the shipment from Houston to Libya the largest illegal movement of explosives ever investigated by the U.S. Jerome S. Brower, a California explosives manufacturer and distributor who is an unindicted coconspirator, testified that Wilson, who left the CIA in 1970, said he wanted "as much as I could get" of cyclotrimethylene trinitramine, a plastic explosive known as C4. Brower said he shipped 42,300 Ibs. in 856 5-gal. cans disguised as "drilling mud," a chemical lubricant used in oil-drilling rigs, from California to Houston, where it was loaded aboard a leased...
...hint of a fighting tone in McClean's words may reflect the Financial Times' decision to foray onto Dow Jones' U.S. turf: the paper is offering U.S. newspapers a weekly insert of international business coverage that made its debut Jan. 10 in the Houston Chronicle. Bigger efforts may follow. Says a Financial Times executive: "We are not printing a U.S. edition, but we should be. That is the logical next step...