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Dowling added that Liem, whom he said he has known for many years, is "a very concerned faculty member. He will make an excellent house master," he said...
During the 1960s, both the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. lost two subs. Neither side is known to have lost a sub during the '70s, though the Soviets had several fatal accidents, some of the deaths caused by radiation poisoning from reactor malfunctions. Then the Soviet navy ran into a streak of bad luck. In 1983 a Charlie I class with a crew of 100 went down in the Pacific off the Kamchatka peninsula. In 1986 a Yankee I-class boat was lost east of Bermuda. With the sinking of the Mike-class vessel in April, a prototype that is believed...
Koito officials became even more suspicious of a scheme against them when they saw disruptive characters known as sokaiya at the meeting. These stockholders, who typically have links to gangsters, prey on companies by charging protection money to keep quiet at such meetings or hector other stockholders. The sokaiya seemed to take Pickens' side in their outbursts, but they did not vote in his favor...
...statement were demonstrably false. All charges against him were dropped for lack of evidence. By late 1987 security officials began to concede, a little sheepishly, that no bugs had yet been found in the equipment removed from the Post Communications Center, or PCC, as the code room is known. (The room is sometimes referred...
Vidia, as he is known to friends, operates at a high level of stress. It may be genetic, he suggests, sadly recalling that his brother Shiva, the novelist and journalist, wrote him shortly before he died of a heart attack three years ago at the age of 40 that "anxiety was his truest feeling." Apprehension also comes with the territory. Naipaul was born an outsider 56 years ago in the British colony of Trinidad. A member of neither the white ruling class nor the black majority, he was part of the island's large, self-contained Indian community...