Word: oversaw
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DIED. EDDIE EGAN, 65, police officer/actor; of cancer; in Miami. As a New York City detective in 1962, Egan oversaw the famed "French Connection" heroin bust, which inspired the 1971 movie. In it Egan, portraying his boss, was cast opposite Gene Hackman, who won an Oscar for playing Egan. The real cop went on to play a platoon's worth of the Hollywood sort...
Beaulieu filed a class action suit Monday against the state, the Fernald School and other individuals and agencies who oversaw the experiments...
...into the week's news, exchange opinions with editors and other readers, search through the archives or rub virtual shoulders with newsmakers. "Stories that are static on a printed page are active--and interactive--on a computer," says online manager Waits May, who conceived of the new approach and oversaw its execution. "There are so many paths to follow, we needed a new navigation system that was as clear and intuitive as possible...
...flight of Hussein Kamel al-Majid to Jordan last month, along with several relatives, revealed a shocking rift in Iraq's ruling clan. Hussein Kamel is Saddam Hussein's cousin and son-in-law. A true hard-liner, he oversaw Iraq's program to develop weapons of mass destruction and, as he indirectly admits below, was responsible for brutal repression of Shi'ites and Kurds after the Gulf War. In his first major interview with a Western journalist, Hussein Kamel talked to diplomatic correspondent Dean Fischer in Amman. On one matter he was almost certainly dissembling: though he denies...
...also influenced by Dick Morris, the sometime Republican political consultant who has emerged this year as the President's favored guru. Although he has been credited with urging the President to the right lately, Morris worked on the speech with senior aide George Stephanopoulos, the more liberal adviser who oversaw the Administration's review. Says a senior White House official: "[Morris] knows Clinton has supported affirmative action his whole career and can't back away...