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...alleged to have taken $1.3 million in kickbacks from a subcontractor while he was managing the Quincy, Mass., shipyards in the early '70s. During his security check, few of the claims Veliotis made about his background in Greece could be confirmed. He provided no birth certificate, and his Greek naval service could not be corroborated. Nonetheless, Veliotis was granted secret clearance. Furthermore, since Defense Department rules prohibit immigrant aliens from running top-secret facilities, the General Dynamics shipyards at Quincy and Groton, Conn., were downgraded to secret status to allow Veliotis access...
...capital, Correspondent Alessandra Stanley helped to cover the White House and later the Bethesda Naval Hospital. White House Correspondent Laurence Barrett, drawing on his five years of Ronald and Nancy Reagan-watching, was aided by Correspondent Barrett Seaman in collaring Administration aides. For News Editor Blackman, who first alerted us to the story, the events of last week brought a sense of déjà vu. As a Washington-based Associated Press correspondent in 1981, she filed the first news bulletin that Ronald Reagan had been shot...
...raced for its Sea King helicopters, which began scouring Nias for badly injured survivors and ferrying them to the ship's hospital for treatment. On the afternoon of Apr. 2, one of those helicopters crashed into a football field near the remote Nias village of Aman Draya, killing six naval and three air-force personnel. Two of the dead were women. Two male survivors were pulled from the burning wreckage and airlifted to the Kanimbla. Witnesses told abc-TV that the helicopter's engine failed 30 m above the ground. "This is really quite heartbreaking," said Prime Minister John Howard...
...from his lonely estate. He was seen at Milford and Bridgeport, Conn. The "Jafsie" notes disappeared from the newspapers. The Norfolk triumvirate--Rev. Harold Dobson-Peacock, John Hughes Curtis, Rear Admiral Guy Hamilton Burrage, U. S. N. retired--continued their activity. Mr. Curtis effected his weekly disappearance in a naval plane; the Episcopal minister, not very successfully incognito as "H. Pearson," alighted from an airplane at Newark Airport and was reported in consultation with the child's parents. When they were reunited at the end of the week the Norfolkers had nothing to say to the Press. John F. ("Jafsie...
Harvard finished fourth in a 14-team field at the Navy Spring Women’s regatta, an intersectional fleet racing regatta drawing competitive teams from the length of the East Coast, Ann Arbor, and Berkeley. Sailing at the US Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., the Crimson matched Flying Junior and 420-class dinghies with eight of the top 10 and 11 of the top 15 teams in the country...