Word: raymonde
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...civil war in Lebanon, where almost 20,000 people have been killed in nearly 14 months of inconclusive fighting. That conflict has reached the point where it is considered a quiet day in Beirut when only 30 people are killed. Among last week's victims: moderate Maronite Leader Raymond Edde, 63, who was wounded by gunmen chasing his car, and Linda Atrash, 55, sister of Leftist Leader Kamal Jumblatt, who was slain when assassins seeking relatives of Jumblatt burst into her apartment...
...still unsolved murders were committed in the state between June and December 1972. Says Shevin sadly: "I don't think it even dawned on the state supreme court that there could be some major cases that would not get solved for two years-and then be unprosecutable." Raymond Marky, assistant attorney general, calls the situation a "terrible travesty...
...Raymond Kroc, today one of America's 12 richest men, who created the McDonald's monster. Back in 1954, Kroc, a slick-talking paper cup salesman passing through town, saw their operation. On the spot, he offered them a deal: in exchange for the right to use their names, methods, and golden arch insignia in order to establish identical McDonald's franchises around the country, he would give them a small percentage of each store's sales. The brothers, "out-spieled," reluctantlyagreed. Within five years Kroc had bought out their share of the enterprise. And a few months later, annoyed...
...Kamal Jumblatt and his National Movement wanted Franjieh out of the presidency, they feared Sarkis' election because of his reputed receptiveness to an increased Syrian military presence to restore order in Lebanon. After succeeding in getting the election postponed for one week, Jumblatt and his choice for President, Raymond Edde, 63, a Christian who had opposed Syrian intervention, kept up a running drumfire last week to delay the election until what they called Syrian "pressure" to secure Sarkis' election had ended. When they failed to halt the proceedings, both Edde and his supporters boycotted the session...
Other sources who could have been Deep Throat by the White House test include Counsel Leonard Garment; Chief of Staff Alexander Haig Jr. or, more likely, someone close to him; Speech Writers Raymond Price, Patrick Buchanan, Benjamin Stein, Franklin Gannon and David Gergen; Haldeman Aide Lawrence Higby; Telecommunications Director Clay Whitehead; National Security Aide Brent Scowcroft; and Domestic Adviser Kenneth Cole Jr. An outside possibility is John Sears, who retained excellent White House sources after his departure as a Nixon counsel in 1969, and whose cigarette-smoking and Scotch-drinking habits, while common enough, correspond to those attributed to Deep...