Word: hubert
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While the amount of detail presented at the Pelton trial was unusual, it was far from complete. Federal prosecutors charged that Pelton sold the Soviets information about five U.S. communication "projects," but they were identified merely as A through E and the way they functioned was described only cryptically. Hubert Atwater, a former co-worker at NSA, testified that Project A involved equipment that intercepted "a particular Soviet communications link." The Post reported that the operation used U.S. submarines operating in the Sea of Okhotsk, off the Soviet eastern coast. Another ex-colleague identified Project B as an "ongoing operation...
...When Hubert Humphrey went to Washington as a Senator in 1949, Kampelman followed as his legislative counsel. He left Capitol Hill in 1955 to join the prestigious law firm currently known as Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson. He also enlisted in the Marine Corps Reserve. Explains Kampelman: "The development of atomic and hydrogen bombs led me to doubt my earlier faith in the power of nonviolence to overcome evil in international relations...
...promised to hold democratic elections but stopped short of saying when. Said U.S. State Department Spokesman Charles Redman: "The government is off to a good start." Privately, the Reagan Administration, which is holding up $26 million in aid for Haiti, hopes the junta will quickly set an election date. Hubert de Ronceray and Gregoire Eugene, leading dissidents during the Duvalier era, announced they plan to run for President...
Contemporary designers clearly welcome the museum as a reaffirmation of their traditions and the ongoing importance of their work. "I think it's a very good idea to put fashion in a museum, and the Louvre in particular," says Hubert de Givenchy. "It should have been done a long time ago." Adds Azzedine Alaia, the most inventive of Paris' younger generation of designers: "It's all fantastic. I hope to be exhibited there...
Computers have been playing passable chess since 1966, when M.I.T. Student Richard Greenblatt wrote a program called MacHack that trounced Hubert Dreyfus, a Berkeley philosopher who had insisted that no computer would ever beat even a ten-year-old. Today chess machines defeat most casual players, and the best programs can hold their own against all but the top grand masters...