Word: units
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...affairs officer assigned to the new Tbilisi embassy but actually the CIA's acting station chief, spent Sunday afternoon on a sight-seeing trip to the village of Kasbegi. He was riding home in a white, four-wheel-drive Niva jeep driven by Eldar Gogoladze, who heads the security unit in charge of protecting top Georgian officials, when suddenly, sometime after 9:30 p.m., a single bullet pierced the brain of the 45-year-old American. Gogoladze was unharmed...
...first it looked like nothing more than a violent spasm in the 23-year-long war between Germany's Red Army Faction terrorists and the government. On June 27, operatives belonging to GSG-9, the country's antiterrorist unit, attempted to arrest suspects Wolfgang Grams, 40, and his girlfriend Birgit Hogefeld, 37, at the train station in Bad Kleinen, a small town in eastern Germany. Officials reported that as police closed in, Grams pulled a pistol, killed an officer and was then gunned down in the brief shootout that followed...
...closely followed by the chief federal prosecutor, Alexander von Stahl. The head of the antiterrorism division, Rainer Hoffmeyer, has been sharply criticized and may be forced to resign. There have been so many demands for reforming or disbanding GSG-9 that Kohl paid a highly publicized visit to the unit to praise the dead officer and deplore "attempts to make a martyr of his murderer...
Pressed on his opinion of the report, Rudenstine repeatedly said he trusted Marshall and emphasized the thorough nature of the investigation of the unit conducted by attorneys A. Hugh Scott and Karen I. Cartotto and investigator James A. Ring of Marshall's former law firm of Choate, Hall & Stewart...
Rudenstine said he had asked Marshall to look into the matter in her role as the administrator responsible for the guard unit and not as Harvard's lawyer. He said Marshall's choice of her former law firm was done after a survey of other investigators, although he declined to say how many other investigators had been contacted or name any other competing bids...