Word: lees
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Amin's Assurance. Only a handful of Western newsmen have been allowed into Shaba. Thus, reports TIME Correspondent Lee Griggs from Kinshasa, foreign diplomats remain skeptical of the government's military claims. Nonetheless, Mobutu's forces may have stabilized the conflict-if only because the invaders showed last week that they can fight as poorly as the Zaïrians have. Moreover, the Angolans and Cubans may decide it is not worth risking greater involvement in Shaba now that Mobutu is receiving help from abroad...
...drive for student bicyclists who think they can put their books down for a few hours on an early reading period Sunday, starts this week, Lee Raymond of Quincy house said yesterday. She is trying to set up two co-ordinators in each House to help her recruit volunteers...
...heart trouble) and cannot readily sight anyone bearing the family name to take over the running of the world's second-largest automaker. So, last week he announced that he will be joined in a three-man "office of the chief executive" by two other company heavyweights: President Lee A. lacocca, 52, and Philip Caldwell, 57, until now the company's adept executive vice president in charge of Ford's operations outside the U.S. (with $8 billion in annual sales, the largest of any U.S. auto company). The arrangement appeared to be a setup that would allow...
...first non-Ford to head the company since its founding in 1903. But his stiletto style and jungle-fighting tactics have earned him many enemies. However, he did not seem upset over last week's changes, and Ford said that lacocca had not lost anything. "Lee was elected chief operating officer this morning as well as getting a third of my power," said Ford (Caldwell takes the new title of vice chairman). lacocca, it seems, does not have much cause for complaint; his $970,000 annual compensation (salary and bonuses) equals Ford's. Ford could serve...
...Morison and Commager, retitled A Concise History of the American Republic, remains a permanent refreshment. The book is not the physical bargain that The Great Republic is: its illustrations, though superb, are only black and white. But its accounts have a high color. The mission of Franklin, Deane and Lee to secure France's aid during the Revolution, for example, becomes "a spectacle to delight the gods-smooth Ben, sleek Silas and suspicious Arthur selling a revolution to the most absolute monarch in Europe." Morison was correcting the manuscript of this revision just before he died last year...