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Like her predecessors, Burrows will keep the Army on a conservative tack. The U.S. branch was a founder of the USO but resigned from the group in 1976 when it began serving alcohol to soldiers. In 1981 the Army quit the World Council of Churches after it awarded welfare grants to guerrilla organizations that eventually overthrew the white minority regime in Rhodesia. The Army found aid for violent groups inappropriate...
...from one Atlanta outlet in 1981 to about 100 restaurants in 19 states last year. But now D'Lites may be down to its final few bites. Company President Jefferson McMahon, a former Arby's executive who was hired only last November to tighten up D'Lites' management, abruptly quit the top job last week. The chain acknowledged that it may soon have to seek bankruptcy protection unless it can arrange an infusion of new capital. D'Lites lost $18.7 million during fiscal 1986, after making a profit of $948,000 in the previous year...
...quit his job suddenly last Sept. 22, and was charged the next day by the FBI with selling U.S. intelligence to Soviet KGB agents in Austria. But by then, he had disappeared...
Darkly handsome and athletic (he was an avid skier until his doctor finally ordered him to quit in his 70s), Harriman was something of a ladies' man. During World War II, he conducted a famous flirtation with Pamela Churchill, who at the time was married to the son of the Prime Minister; he married her three decades later, after the death of his second wife Marie Norton Whitney...
...Island. But Iacocca has said he is "repulsed" by the world of politics and its "dirty tricks" and has often stated his resolve against seeking elective office. Nevertheless, this modern American folk hero has found himself in the frustrating, if flattering position of having to implore his admirers to quit trying to recruit him for the 1988 presidential race...