Word: les
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...very presidential exit, so it's just as well that a Mountie and a Secret Service man accompanied George Bush when he took an unplanned constitutional during a fishing trip in Newfoundland. "Bogholes in Newfoundland can look like hard ground," says Corporal Les Noble, the Mountie. "All of a sudden the President went into a boghole, and he was in above his waist." Noble, who had one foot in the quicksand-like bog himself, managed after a 10-minute struggle to extricate Bush with the help of Secret Service man Ed Flynn. "It was a hard pull," says Noble, placing...
RECOVERING. BORIS YELTSIN, 64, President of Russia; from a blood-supply problem in his heart that triggered chest pains; in Moscow. Yeltsin has canceled all engagements until next week, including trips to Norway and the Russian city of Murmansk. RECOVERING. LES PAUL, 80, musician and father of the electric guitar; after collapsing while preparing to travel to a Nashville birthday concert; in Mahwah, New Jersey. OUSTED. G. KIRK RAAB, 59, president and ceo of biotech giant Genentech; following the revelation that he had requested a personal $2 million loan guarantee from Roche Holding Ltd. while negotiating a merger with...
...have a hard time making that case. "The people on the base closing commission tell me that McClellan was the strongest candidate for closing on their list. The Pentagon's own numbers say it should be closed. The Air Force recommended that it be closed in 1993 before Les Aspin saved it for political reasons...
...DIED. LES ASPIN, 56, ex-Clinton Defense Secretary; of a stroke; in Washington. Aspin's thoughtful manner made for a difficult fit with the snap-to-it Pentagon, where the former chair of the House Armed Services Committee confronted hot-button issues like gays in the military. When it was revealed that he had turned down requests for more tanks and armored vehicles in Somalia prior to the deaths of 18 American soldiers in a Mogadishu fire fight, Aspin resigned-after less than a year at the helm...
HOSPITALIZED. LES ASPIN, 56, former Defense Secretary; after a stroke; in Washington. Now the head of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, Aspin has a history of heart problems...