Word: uniform
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...seems, is to threaten to disclose embarrassing secrets if the Government will not drop the trial. In the bitter words of Robin Ross, chief aide to Attorney General Thornburgh, "This great American hero is graymailing the Government. This is the guy who stood up in his Marine Corps uniform and all his medals, and now he is sticking it to the Government with an advantage ((knowledge of secrets)) he got through service to his country...
When General Jose Guillermo Medina Sanchez, 53, retired as head of Colombia's 80,000-member National Police last month, the country's law-enforcement officials turned out in full dress uniform, complete with ceremonial gilt swords. But Medina's departure was not quite so honorable as it seemed. Colombian police officials have told TIME that Medina was fired on orders from President Virgilio Barco Vargas after the general came under suspicion of being on the payroll of Pablo Escobar Gaviria, patriarch of one of the leading families of the Medellin drug cartel...
...listed as James J. Brown, No. 155413. "I'm just sitting quiet, not saying a thing, serving my time," says Brown from a pay phone inside the minimum-security facility. Every day he rises at 5:15 to dish out breakfast in the cafeteria, wearing a cook's white uniform and cap, embellished by purple wraparound sunglasses and a matching purple foulard scarf. He directs the chapel choir, and attendance has doubled since he got there. On Saturdays, his wife Adrienne, a former hair stylist with the television show Solid Gold, brings a dryer and a bag of salon products...
Wearing a Crimson uniform for the first time atthe Garden, Hughes--who carried Catholic MemorialHigh School to the schoolboy championship at theGarden last year--stopped 19 Eagle shots in thefinal period to finish with 38 saves, a careerhigh...
...looks like a farm-implements salesman in his brown uniform, but make no mistake: Don Tyson, 58, is the king of America's poultry producers. His Springdale, Ark., company slaughters more than 15 million chickens a week, turning out 1,300 products ranging from fresh broilers to frozen nuggets. His desire to rule an even bigger roost has kept the feathers flying in the chicken industry since last October, when Tyson (1988 revenues: $2 billion) offered $894 million for the No. 3 producer, Memphis-based Holly Farms...