Word: laird
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Whatever good sense these palliatives make, they would certainly cramp the style of some ultrarich whose money lust is tempered by an engagingly eccentric sense of how to spend their fortunes. Arthur Jones, the gruff, gun- toting inventor of Nautilus sports equipment, is laird of a Florida estate that includes a runway large enough to land his own Boeing 707; it is used, among other things, to fly in wild animals for medical research. One of them, which Jones proudly shows Packard, is a reptilian rarity: the biggest saltwater crocodile in captivity. Nice...
...trial began, the White House received a classified study by a team headed by ex-Defense Secretary Melvin Laird. The study blamed U.S. personnel for a "deterioration of security practices" at the Moscow embassy. Among its recommendations: once Marine guards have served in Moscow, they should be transferred out of the security force to prevent KGB infiltration...
...happened in the Marine case. Says Robert Lamb, head of the State Department's bureau of diplomatic security: "We've got a lot of work before we can give even an interim judgment." A classified report completed this month by a presidential commission led by former Defense Secretary Melvin Laird is said to recommend the creation of a new elite guard corps...
Though these visitors were out of office, they still formed quite a data bank. Melvin Laird had been Richard Nixon's Secretary of Defense and John Vessey the Chairman of Ronald Reagan's Joint Chiefs. James Schlesinger had run the CIA for Nixon and then the Defense Department for Nixon and Gerald Ford. Richard Helms had spent his career as one of the nation's top spooks. Together they were on two study missions to investigate the security breaches in the old and new American embassies...
Helms and the others on the Laird commission did their investigation of what went wrong with security in the old embassy. Then Helms indulged himself just a bit: he made his way to the old KGB building where the enemy had plotted against him. He stood out front, unknown, unchallenged...