Word: masterminds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Damned Old Bitch." According to charges brought by New York police last week, the mastermind-if that is the word-of the plot was one Robert Steele Collier, 28, a library clerk who visited Cuba early last summer and returned to organize the Black Liberation Front. Also charged were Walter Augustus Bowe, 32, a onetime trumpet player who used to lead a combo called "The Angry Black Men," but more recently has worked as a $50-a-week New York settlement-house youth leader, and boyish-looking Khaleel Sul-tarn Sayyed, 22, son of an Arab-descended Negro who runs...
...Army Colonel Antoine Argoud, 49, military mastermind of the terrorist Secret Army Organization, last week was sentenced to life imprisonment. Thin and pale, Argoud scarcely looked the part of a conspirator who might plot the death of De Gaulle; yet his trial put a strain on the fragile new friendship between France and West Germany...
...servants in the old regime. To counsel Tho's government, the brass named a 15-man "Council of Sages," including business and professional leaders. But it is the military that is running the country. Lieut. General Tran Van Don, 46, the polished, French-schooled staff officer who helped mastermind the coup, was appointed Defense Minister. Major General Ton That Dinh, 36, the aggressive, vain commander of the Saigon district, was named Minister of Public Security, which gives him control of Ngo Dinh Nhu's secret police...
...book first serialized in The New Yorker), Political Philosopher Hannah Arendt cites these and other facts and concludes that Eichmann's version of his role in the murder of 5,000,000 Jews was closer to the truth than the Israeli prosecution's. He was not the mastermind, she is convinced. He was simply a cog in the machinery of murder...
...Daddy" Unruh is the elephantine (265 lbs.) mastermind of California's Democratic Party. Speaker of the state assembly, he is proud of the way he has manipulated lobbyists into contributing to the party. "Money," he says, "is the mother's milk of politics." Unruh directed Democratic Governor Pat Brown's winning campaign against Richard Nixon this year, is considered Jack Kennedy's favor ite California politician. He has also been a four-letter man-although not in the way that Yale usually thinks...