Word: man
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During the Vienna summit, President Carter introduced to President Brezhnev a tall, distinguished white-haired man as the next U.S. Ambassador to Moscow. Brezhnev was delighted. The nominee was Thomas J. Watson Jr., 65, son of the founder of IBM and an innovator who took over the company in 1956 and turned it into the largest computer manufacturer in the world before retiring in 1974 as chairman of the board. What especially pleased Brezhnev and the Soviets about the Watson nomination is the fact that he is a successful businessman with an excellent knowledge of the problems of international trade...
...recommended for the post by W. Averell Harriman, 87, another top businessman who was chosen, by Franklin D. Roosevelt, to serve in Moscow in 1941. Watson had earlier been considered for a Cabinet post. Says a top White House aide: "He's a very strong, competent and enlightened man. He's also tough as nails...
...most spectacular Sandinista operations, including last year's brief takeover of the National Palace in Managua. The best-known Tercerista is Eden Pastora, the Comandante Cero (Zero) who led that raid. More influential are the Ortega brothers, Humberto and Daniel, who represent the Terceristas on the nine-man Sandinista National Directorate. Daniel was named by Sandinistas as their representative on the five-member "temporary government" selected last week by the rebels. The others: Moises Hassan Morales, leader of the Sandinistas' political arm, the National Patriotic Front; Alfonso Robelo Callejas, a businessman jailed by Somoza for leading a strike...
...same "Greek lobby" was instrumental last week in blocking House approval of a $50 million military grant to Turkey. Since 1974 two leaders of the lobby have acquired more power-but no more sympathy for the Turkish position. Congressman John Brademas of Indiana is now the No. 3 man in the House Democratic leadership. Paul Sarbanes of Maryland has moved from a congressional seat up to the Senate...
...Newton, Cantley described him as "that awful man" and a "conceited bungler" who "might have been inspired to take a little more care" if he had, in fact, been intent on murder...