Word: hume
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...Catholics, whose immediate demands had been met by the end of the Stormont government, and by a British promise to begin releasing terrorist suspects who had been interned since last summer. "Very nearly 100% of the people in my area favor a stop to the bombing now," said John Hume, M.P. for Londonderry and a leading Catholic moderate...
...Dita tells it, her life has had its grim moments, but mostly it was fun. Her job at ITT "got better and better-it was beautiful until those sons of bitches pulled this one on me." She was apparently referring to Columnist Anderson and his legman Brit Hume. "I started raising hell when I was born, and I ain't quit yet," she said. Her father Robert Davis was serving in Germany as an Army colonel when she was born at Fort Riley, Kans., in 1918. Her parents at one point had three birth certificates prepared with different names...
...else, Anderson argues, can there be an effective check on the probity of government? Brit Hume, 28, another of his staff members, charges that most political reporters ask the wrong questions. "Who's paying?" he demands to know. "Who's behind the candidate? Who's really winning?" This is another strong tenet in the Anderson credo -one that unites him both philosophically and tactically with Ralph Nader, with whom he shares material and mutual admiration. They are both obsessed by the influence of private power and big money on public men and public policy. Almost by reflex...
Syndicate got half. Anderson's share all went in office costs, salaries ($22,000 to Whitten, $14,000 to Hume, $11,500 to Spear) and other expenses. Anderson's main income comes from outside activities: $21,650 last year from speechmaking, $10,000 from Parade, varying sums from writing and consulting jobs and small investments...
There was one particularly intriguing chapter in the week's testimony. Last month Jack Anderson's assistant, Brit Hume, had appeared in ITT's Washington office and showed the original of the Beard memo to Mrs. Beard and her boss, ITT Vice President W.R. Merriam. According to Geneen and ITT Senior Vice President Howard Aibel, the Washington staff was ordered "to remove any documents that were no longer needed for current operations, as well as documents which, if put into Mr. Anderson's possession, could be misused and misconstrued by him so as to cause embarrassment...