Word: richards
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...months in 1974 and '75, fancies himself an old China hand. He seems to rate preserving the carefully nurtured U.S. strategic relationship with China well above human-rights considerations, which he has always valued below the need for order and stability in world affairs. When former President Richard Nixon and former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger returned from exploratory trips to China with the news that Beijing wanted closer relations but thought the U.S. should make the first move, Bush judged the time to be right...
...Sporting Club to buy a ranch in Paradise Valley, Montana, where he moved with his wife, nee Betty Crockett (a direct descendant of Davy), and his son Thomas IV. The breathtaking scenery and anything-goes ambiance soon attracted a freewheeling constellation of characters that included fellow writer Richard Brautigan, actor Peter Fonda, painter Russell Chatham and director Sam Peckinpah. Before long, stories started coming out of the valley, ribald tales of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll that have become part of the local lore...
Associate Publisher, Advertising Sales Director: Richard Heinemann...
Before the ominous S&L predictions had a chance to sink in, alarms were going off about other potentially monumental crises. A report by Budget Director Richard Darman warned that careless management at such agencies as the Veterans Administration and the Department of Energy may have allowed scandals rivaling the estimated $8 billion imbroglio at the Department of Housing and Urban Development to go undetected. But the gravest worries were triggered by concerns about the solvency of more than $5 trillion in federal credit and insurance programs that cover everything from bank deposits to student loans and Third World...
...Pentagon or the State Department or whoever -- the answer is the same." But the Vice President hasn't stopped trying. As the latest coup was under way, Laurel called it a display of democracy in action. Replied the U.S. State Department's deputy spokesman Richard Boucher: "We clearly do not view it that...