Word: unite
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Flynn spent yesterday welcoming former Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres to the city and attending a groundbreaking with Gov. Michael S. Dukakis for a $20.3 million, 165-unit housing project in Boston's Mission Hill section...
Meanwhile, Zimbabwean rangers have been capturing Zambezi Valley rhinos and moving them away from the war zone. Since 1984 the teams have relocated nearly 240 animals to safer game reserves and fenced-in ranches. On one recent morning, Warden Clem Coetsee, head of the capture unit, set out with his men to bag their 75th rhino of the three-month dry-weather capturing season. Armed with a heavy darting rifle loaded with nerve-blocking tranquilizer, he spotted a rhino cow, moved into range and took careful aim. The dart hit the beast's shoulder with a thwack. She snorted...
Megamillionaire Simon says he is simply following Horace Greeley's famous dictum by going west with his money. He has taken some high-powered talent with him in the investment partnership known as WSGP International. The head of WSGP's thrift unit is Preston Martin, a former vice chairman of the Federal Reserve Board and onetime chairman of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board. Gerald Parsky, a Los Angeles lawyer who served as Assistant Treasury Secretary under Simon, is his old boss's general partner and contributes his initials to the company's anagrammatic name. A select group of international...
...looking into the Gritz fiasco were furious that they had not been told about ISA's existence. The Pentagon conducted its own investigation, which apparently convinced Secretary Weinberger that ISA was already spinning out of control. In early 1982, only a year after ISA's formation, Weinberger ordered the unit disbanded...
...special operations division, meanwhile, was getting into even deeper trouble. The source was Yellow Fruit, which had been assigned to keep watch over the other special operations units to make sure they preserved secrecy. In 1983 two of the unit's officers complained that their commander, Lieut. Colonel Dale Duncan, was trying to cover nearly $90,000 in missing funds with phony receipts. Colonel Robert Kvederas, the new commander of special operations, asked Longhofer, who had become military liaison with the CIA, to investigate. Longhofer initially concluded that Duncan's accusers could not prove their charges. But Jerry King...