Word: mortons
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...work hard to adapt to using open sources of information, the flood of raw information available to everyone from television, newspapers, journals, computers. Intelligence officers suffer from the impression that information is no good unless they stole it or paid for it. "The principal problem is with analysis," says Morton Abramowitz, a former chief of intelligence and research at the State Department, now president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington. "A major question is whether we're making use of the vast amount of nonsecret information. There are so many people who know more than the government...
WASHINGTON -- Republicans are girding to attack another Clinton nominee on ideological grounds. Morton Halperin is a former American Civil Liberties Union official who, the White House announced, will be nominated for Assistant Secretary of Defense for Democracy and Human Rights. In 1977, Halperin testified on behalf of Philip Agee, a left-wing former CIA officer who faced deportation from Britain. Senators opposed to Halperin include Republicans Trent Lott of Mississippi and Lauch Faircloth of North Carolina. While Halperin is said to be performing outstandingly in his interim Pentagon job, his Democratic support is weak, and sources say Clinton is backing...
...program, entitled "'43 Into the Future," featured Mailer, former Washington Post Executive Editor Benjamin C. Bradlee, Resolution Trust Corp. President Albert V. Casey and Yale University's Professor Emeritus of History John Morton Blum...
...tremendous annoyance in the Yard," said Morton Gonedelman '43, referring to the rally...
...more than a dozen years ago, basketball didn't amount to nearly so much beyond the community gym. The pros were dismal, near bankruptcy. March Madness had not been invented by the impresarios. David Morton of the Amateur Athletic Union thinks the 1979 game between Indiana State and Michigan State, featuring Larry Bird and Magic Johnson, "lit the flame under college basketball" that carried a new excitement through the pros and down into the high schools...