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...time anyone saw her was Feb. 17, 1977. She was 65 and had been a widow since 1970, when her husband, Frank, co-founder of the candy company E.J. Brach & Sons, died at the age of 79. They met in Miami in 1950 at a country club where she ran the hat-check concession. She wasn't very social. She was obsessively attached to her pets; she once chartered a plane home from the Bahamas to tend a mongrel with a bad kidney. She favored wigs. Chicago fed off such stuff as the mystery remained unsolved and theories proliferated...
...letter, which was written after Eaton senthim a preliminary copy and asked for suggestions,was the subject of a front page article in theWashington Post. The Post also ran an editorialcritical of the preliminary study...
...through 1997. During the 1990s, the cuts will slice 1 of every 4 positions from the U.S. intelligence payroll. "The intelligence community and the CIA will be -- by the end of the decade -- down to about the size it was in the Carter Administration," Woolsey says. The man who ran the agency back then, however, doesn't see that as a problem. "I don't think we were shorthanded in my day,' says Stansfield Turner, CIA chief under President Carter. "I think ((President)) Reagan and ((his CIA chief William)) Casey bloated...
...there are some experts who think the CIA is beyond repair. "The CIA should be shut down because its banner has too many cold war stains," says William Odom, a retired three-star Army general who ran the National Security Agency, the government's electronic eavesdropping arm, during the Reagan Administration. The Pentagon and State Department could perform most of its tasks, he says, and a new, truly secret unit could handle spy missions...
Media magnate and new Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi edged closer to being implicated in a corruption scandal when prosecutors issued an arrest warrant for his brother. Paolo Berlusconi, who ran several of his sibling's companies, has been charged with bribing financial regulators. He's since vanished, with police now negotiating with his attorney for his surrender. This isn't the first embarrassment for the new government of Prime Minister Berlusconi, who himself has been trying to soften his party's ultranationalist edges. In a country plagued by political and financial scandal, will this latest news tarnish the Teflon...