Word: johnson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...High hurdles--1. Modu (P) 7.7; 2. Zvosec (P) 7.9; 3. Wright (P) 7.9; 4. Johnson...
...officer in question was Alexandra U. Johnson, 32. An Arabist who had studied in Beirut and Tunis, she was assigned to the Jerusalem consulate two years ago as part of her six-year probationary training period. From interviews with Palestinians seeking visas, Johnson compiled a list of 29 incidents involving such tortures as "refrigeration, use of electricity, hanging by the hands or feet, extreme forms of sexual sadism, interrogation accompanied by starvation, enforced sleeplessness." Details were cabled to Washington last May and November by the consulate, which functions independently of the U.S. embassy in Tel Aviv...
...State Department, Johnson's charges were read with considerable interest and alarm, but her conclusions of patterns of torture and systematic abuse were rejected as unproven. Meanwhile, in a breach of diplomatic courtesy, Israel's secret service, Shin Bet, with the approval of the FBI liaison office at the American embassy, put Johnson under surveillance and tapped her telephone. Relayed to Washington were Shin Bet reports that she was intimately involved with Palestinian terrorists, both politically and personally. Following her tour in Jerusalem, she was denied tenure in the foreign service. In Washington last week, she accused...
...sequel's producers had virtually no trouble recruiting the cast they wanted. Some prominent athletes-Decathlon Champion Rafer Johnson and former U.S.C. Running Back Anthony Davis -volunteered to play minor roles. Cafe Pianist-Singer Bobby Short flew to Los Angeles on a few days' notice to play himself in an early 1960s literary party scene. The biggest coups by far were the casting of James Earl Jones and Marlon Brando. Jones had originally been lined up to play Chicken George in Roots 1. Had he done so, he would not have been usable as Haley in Roots...
...Gate is not very kind to Kennedy's entourage, he is scathing on the subject of Lyndon Johnson. As Vice President, L.B.J. was sent by Kennedy to Berlin to demonstrate American concern. There was no way of telling that from Johnson's trip. Avoiding the Wall, the Vice President seemed to be mainly interested in gathering souvenirs. "Say, Mr. Mayor," he addressed Willy Brandt, "where did you get those spiffy shoes? I want a pair just like them." Brandt replied that he would be glad to oblige, but it was Sun day and the store was closed...