Word: huey
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Having spent more than half his life in the U.S. Senate, Louisiana's Russell Long last week announced that he will retire when his current term ends in 1987. Son of the "Kingfish," Huey P. Long, Louisiana's legendary populist Governor and Senator, "Princefish" Russell, 66, came to the Senate in 1948. Enthroned as the powerful chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, he became an acknowledged master of the tax code, manipulating it to protect his home state's industries. In a series of filibusters in the 1950s and '60s, Long's bayou banter helped slow civil rights legislation; later...
...critics, the Tribune is the Baby Huey of American newspapers-big, awkward, musclebound, stumbling over its own vast strength. Consistently profitable and increasingly dominant in the nation's third largest city, the paper employs 530 full-time editorial staffers, including 16 correspondents in Washington, eight in other U.S. cities outside Illinois, and four abroad. Yet for a paper of its visibility, the Trib has too little impact outside its region. The staff shares the industry's enthusiasm for blockbuster features, which tend to be deftly written and slickly packaged rather than penetrating. Says Journalism Director Neale Copple...
...district attorney of Alameda County, Calif, who had earlier (1958-66) been an assistant D.A. there when Meese was a deputy in the same office. Jensen helped organize the mass arrests of Berkeley students during the Free Speech Movement of the mid-'60s and prosecuted radicals such as Huey Newton and the kidnapers of Patty Hearst. Jensen does not need Senate confirmation, but his tenuous status could be an election-year liability, reminding voters of the disarray at the department and the ethical quandaries that have plagued Reagan's Administration. Lamented a top White House adviser...
Sitting inches from the prop wash of his UH-1H ("Huey") helicopter, Salvadoran Army Colonel Julio César Yánez López stared with satisfaction at the thin plumes of smoke coiling across the scrubby landscape below. "We're fighting terrorists, not guerrillas with a noble cause," he announced as the chopper settled to earth alongside a cornfield crackling with flames. "We're going to integrate Usulután back into the economic life of this country...
Over the years, I have come to think of the press as a puppeteer who wants to control every facet of our lives. Your article "Journalism Under Fire" [Dec. 12] confirms my opinion. Serve us. Do not rule us. Martha G. Huey...