Word: liaisoning
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...July 1972. An unstamped note was slipped into the mailbox at McCord's house in Rockville, Md. It was signed "Jack," and came from John Caulfield, a former White House staff assistant who had worked under John Ehrlichman, mainly as a liaison with law enforcement agencies. The note suggested three times at which McCord could go to a pay phone "on Route 355 near the Blue Fountain Inn" and expect a call from Caulfield. McCord went to the booth, got a call from a man with a "New York accent" who said: "Jack will want to talk with...
...Kong into China last week, a "very intriguing" assignment. That said, the 75-year-old veteran diplomat, who had previously served as ambassador to Paris, London and Bonn, flew on to Peking from Canton in a Chinese Trident jet to begin his new chores as chief of the U.S. Liaison Office to the People's Republic of China. There, for the first time since Nixon's visit, an American flag was raised, signaling the official establishment of formal relations between the U.S. and China after a lapse of 23 years...
...American advance team has been working out arrangements for the liaison office for the past month, and has found the Chinese extraordinarily cooperative. Scores of Chinese workers labored round the clock to put the finishing touches on the new tiled-roof limestone compound that will house the mission (temporary headquarters have been set up in a diplomatic apartment building until the building is completed in early June). Peking permitted the U.S. to fly in two cargo planes from Guam loaded with furniture, cars, appliances and supplies-causing considerable surprise and some resentment among other members of the diplomatic community...
Indeed they were. TIME learned that the burglary occurred on Sept. 3, 1971, when both men were on the White House payroll, Liddy as a full-time staffer who served as liaison between the White House and the FBI, Hunt as a $100-a-day consultant. Known as "the plumbers," they had been hired to trace the leak of the Pentagon papers. Receiving all the FBI reports in what was called a "superspecial" investigation, they were informed that Ellsberg's psychiatrist, Lewis Fielding, had refused to divulge any information in his files on the grounds that they were privileged...
...Mary Haines (Kim Hunter). Since Mary is a pretty decent woman compared with her feline friends, audience sympathy gravitates to her. Crystal is a steely predator who wants her share of the spoils, but as an arriviste, she cannot keep her social footing. She is caught out in another liaison, and Mary gets her husband back. In effect, the lower orders have been chastised for their presumption...