Word: liaison
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...refinery in Moose Jaw, Sask., the first of a remarkable series of jobs that during the next 30 years put him into every facet of the petroleum business. During World War II, big (6 ft. 2 in., 200 Ibs.), craggy-faced Ken Jamieson was appointed an Ottawa-based oil liaison officer between the Canadian and U.S. Governments. When peace came, Imperial Oil Ltd., the Canadian subsidiary of Standard Oil (New Jersey), made him a lucrative offer, and he accepted even though he had reservations about "just ending up in the back office...
...York's first black deputy mayor is Paul Gibson Jr., formerly a vice-president of American Airlines. So far, no one has asked Gibson to resign, although Sunday's New York Times reported that his getting only "liaison" responsibilities with the Office of Contract Compliance, which tries to make sure that construction projects employ some black workers, had touched off "intensive debate...
...plumbers soon turned up a prime suspect: Yeoman First Class Charles E. Radford, now 30. He was serving as admiral's writer (military parlance for secretary-stenographer) to Rear Admiral Robert O. Welander, now 49, who was the Joint Chiefs' liaison to the National Security Council. Welander's job was to attend NSC meetings, take notes and brief the Chiefs on what happened, as well as to pass on other authorized data about foreign policy...
...sent to Charleston, S.C.; he commanded a flotilla of destroyers there until May 1973, when he became an Assistant Deputy Chief of Naval Operations in the Pentagon. In June 1972, Nixon reappointed Moorer Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. To prevent future military snooping, Kissinger abolished the Joint Chiefs' liaison with the Security Council...
...finally broke this month, a Pentagon spokesman tried to dismiss it as the result of "overzealousness and overexuberance" on the part of low-ranking staff members. Some officers privately said, however, that far from being gung-ho, Radford and Welander did no more than what is expected of most liaison personnel. The military, loathing surprises, takes extraordinary steps to keep itself apprised of what is going on in Washington. At least 515 liaison officers are assigned to civilian agencies; there are even five in the U.S. Postal Service. Declared one retired admiral: "Military people are spying on every branch...