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Committee members were nonetheless openly skeptical. Referring to a prepared statement by Clifford and his protege-partner, Robert Altman, which characterized their own conduct as "entirely proper," Wisconsin Republican Toby Roth said, "I don't believe a word of it. You've been in bed with B.C.C.I. for 10 years...
The army's trauma is not over. Yazov was arrested and faces trial. His protege, former Chief of the General Staff Mikhail Moiseyev, 52, played a role ambiguous enough to let Gorbachev name him acting Defense Minister shortly after the coup's collapse. That decision alarmed those who expected the...
In London he became the protege of adman David Ogilvy, whom he greatly admires. People in advertising are reviled nearly as often as lawyers, but Mayle thinks it makes a fine first career. "You learn to present an idea lucidly, and you must have a picture of who your audience...
The cocaine bricks unearthed from the lye were marked with a destination code, "Baby I." The same marking had been found on an 18,000-kg seizure near Los Angeles two months earlier. Baby I turned out to be a Santacruz protege in New York, Luis ("Leto") Delio Lopez, 28...
In the studio she could be harsh. She spoke in a whisper that was louder than a shout. On occasion she laughed heartily at her students' efforts. "With Martha," Richard Boone once said, "you get it right away or jump out the window." Glen Tetley, a protege in the 1950s...