Word: rice
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Springfield was also hamstrung by the absence of co-captian Andy Rice, sidelined with a broken...
Focal Point. Seoul still denies any connection with Tongsun Park, the partygiving Washington rice broker who remains a focal point of the investigations. But federal probers believe the regime ordered the millionaire mystery man, last reported shuttling between Japan and Great Britain, to stay clear of both the U.S. and South Korea. Should Park decide never to return to the U.S., as seems possible, he would be leaving behind considerable assets-including two homes, a business building and the George Town Club, where he has done much of his Washington entertaining. He also had a $249,000 secret interest...
Most Beirutis welcomed the Syrians joyfully, particularly because the arrival of the army marked an end to the nighttime shellings that have made the city an afterdark hell. Young boys happily clambered aboard the Syrian tanks. Women pelted them with rice and rose petals, Lebanon's traditional welcoming symbols. Behind the tanks, in another sign of trust that the 19-month civil war was over, came a civilian convoy-cars laden with mattresses, bedding and furniture-of Lebanese who had fled the capital when the fighting began...
...principal figures in the Washington-based operation is a Korean businessman known as Tongsun Park. Park is a man of rather substantial income, apparently derived from a lucrative rice-exporting operation that is sanctioned and supported by key figures in both the United States and South Korean governments. The evidence at this time indicates that Park contacted the KCIA in the United States and offered to begin a lobbying effort based in Washington in return for certain concessions in rice exporting to South Korea. Park's and South Korea's lobbying campaign grew in size and scope, changing into...
...jury in Houston next summer. In January, the first trial-by-jury of the "Mormon will" is to begin. In that will, Hughes (or someone forging his handwriting) divided his estate among the Mormon Church, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Miami, former wives Jean Peters and Ella Rice, Boy Scouts, orphans and a gas-station attendant in Nevada, to name a few. Ten handwriting experts have attested to its authenticity, but it is being energetically contested by lawyers for Summa, who contend that the handwriting is a poor facsimile of Hughes' scrawl. They are believed to feel that...