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...expressed concern that our current . . . formats only emphasize the negative aspects." The Secretary, Johnson added, has asked for "greater emphasis on the positive factors." Though Brown had been grousing for weeks about the readiness rating system, he did not dictate the embarrassing memo. It was, said his spokesman, Thomas Ross, a "screw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Point Man Harold Brown | 10/20/1980 | See Source »

Earlier in the month, the I.R.A. claimed responsibility for two similar slayings in the border area. Wallace Allen, 49, a south Armagh milkman who was a reserve policeman in the Royal Ulster Constabulary (R.U.C.), and Ross Hearst, 56, a laborer, whom the I.R.A. had accused of passing information to security forces, were abducted and shot to death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTHERN IRELAND: Shifting Targets | 10/6/1980 | See Source »

...believe all those rumors about Besty Ross and the late nights? The American flag was actually conceived in Cambridge, where a seamstress was asked to put together the familiar 13 bars with a British emblem of some kind. Nobody's really quite sure exactly why it was done, but the army needed something to march under...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: First' From a Cambridge Original | 10/4/1980 | See Source »

...Perry well knew, the Defense Secretary had already scheduled a press conference on Stealth two days later. The timing had been carefully worked out by Brown's press officer, Thomas Ross, to precede-and take some of the sting out of-release of a report about what had gone wrong with the aborted April mission to rescue the hostages in Iran...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Chronicle of a Security Leak | 9/29/1980 | See Source »

...Ross Perot...

Author: By Paul A. Attanasio, | Title: The Man Who Loved Woman | 9/15/1980 | See Source »

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