Word: names
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bill abolishing SAVAK and establishing a new National Intelligence Center, without police powers. The No. 2 man in SAVAK agreed to an unprecedented interview with TIME Correspondent David S. Jackson at the organization's heavily guarded, marble-decorated fortress headquarters in north Tehran. The official stipulated that his name could not be disclosed. His views offer a revealing insight into the thinking of an efficient and dreaded intelligence agency. Excerpts...
...sheep dog's, he helped yourgsters with their geometry homework, still loved to sail, play Mozart melodies on the violin and scribble reams of doggerel. Though he has been dead nearly a quarter of a century, there are few people who do not recognize the face or name of Albert Einstein...
...Malcolm's obsession with his African roots-the "X" stands for his unknown African name-that drives Haley forward on his search for his forefather Kunta Kinte. What happened when Haley finally went to Africa has already passed into American legend, but the reenactment of the scene at the end of Roots 11 still has strong impact. When a tribal oral historian, a griot, confirms the Haley family account of Kinte's capture by white 18th century slave traders, Alex's joy is overwhelming. "You old African! I found you! I found you! I found...
...strange African sounds his grandmother had passed on to him could somehow be the key to his own background. He discovered that they could, and he spent the next twelve years doing research and writing, eventually tracing his own origins back seven generations to a young African by the name of Kunta Kinte...
Lucian K. Truscott IV also bears a refulgent military name. His grandfather, who affected pink riding breeches and a scarf of white parachute silk for combat wear, was a World War II general described as a fighter who "out-Pattoned Patton." Author Truscott's father is also a career military man, a West Pointer. Truscott IV, 31, has found a complicated way to deal with the family tradition. He graduated from the Point with a resolutely undistinguished record in 1969, then resigned his commission 13 months later in a row with his superiors. Truscott became a journalist-largely...