Word: sampson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...July of that year the junta then in power in Athens conspired with extremist Greek Cypriots to topple Archbishop Makarios, President of Cyprus. Their goal was to unite the island republic with Greece. Makarios barely escaped with his life and fled into exile. His place was usurped by Nikos Sampson, notorious for having committed acts of terrorism against the Turkish minority on Cyprus. After a week of protests and warnings, Ankara moved unilaterally to avert Greek annexation of the island; Turkish paratroops and landing craft invaded. Sampson fell. So, within days, did his mentors in Athens. Makarios returned to Cyprus...
...know where he ever thought he got a mandate from the American people to have Rosalynn Carter handle the South American issue and Lillian Carter handle other issues." Many executives are disturbed by Carter's reliance on the advice of a close-knit Georgia Mafia. Says Thomas Sampson, managing partner in the Boston office of Arthur Andersen & Co., the accounting firm, and a New England fund raiser for Carter: "I don't think all the brains in the world are in the Northeast. But I don't think they are all in Georgia either...
Carter has his defenders in the business community. John D. deButts, chairman of American Telephone & Telegraph Co., calls the attention of his executive colleagues to the proposals favoring business in the draft tax-reform program. Sampson contends that businessmen are judging Carter too quickly. Says he: "It's almost as if he were being photographed every 15 minutes to see if he's aging gracefully. He can't turn the economy around in ten months, and anybody who suggests he can is a damn fool." Donald Frey, chairman of Bell & Howell, who has considerable doubts about Carter...
...prime intent of Arms Bazaar is to document the tangled path of the companies and entrepreneurs who have developed the arms trade. Sampson, author of books on ITT and the oil companies, has had considerable experience in writing exposes. The Sears and Roebuck-like brochures produced by the British foreign service, the $106 million Lockheed paid to a single Arab business agent over five years, and numerous other interesting details are recounted. Sampson concentrates on the activities of the Western nations partly because they are more involved and less policy-oriented than the Soviets, but also because the information...
...TIMES Arms Bazaar may seem to be a conspiracy book. Business and political figures from Herbert Kalmbach to Prince Bernhard of Holland are involved in one way or another. But Sampson is not paranoid, merely thorough. The arms trade, with its manufacturers so dependent on large-sale, precarious government contracts, is one of the most lucrative and integral to the western world...