Word: warren
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hollywoodish U.S. conglomerate boss bribes President Frankling with a $250,000 campaign donation to get a White House meeting at which he warns that a leftist government in Uruguay is about to expropriate his assets there. He then suggests that the CIA could stop it. White House Aide Robin Warren is ordered by the President to see what the CIA can do. It, of course, suggests a coup. Frankling gets drunk on his yacht and tells Warren to give the CIA a green light. Alas, the Uruguayan junta learns of the caper. In the international uproar, the President denies ever...
...Robin Warren experienced a thrill. This is how it must have been done when Kennedy embargoed Cuba, and Nixon invaded Cambodia, and Ford rescued the Mayaguez. Those moments in recent history began with a few men in these very rooms, deciding life and death; now he was one of those men. It was not so much a feeling of pride; it was fulfillment. . . He wondered if they always felt high when they dealt with these issues of life and death. - The Whole Truth...
...Louis Art Museum, designed for the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair by Cass Gilbert, a leading architect of the Beaux Arts school. The airy building, with a 78-ft.-high vaulted ceiling, had over the years become so cluttered and partitioned that it looked more like a warren than a pleasure dome. Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates gutted the interior to restore the structure's openness-and in the process increased the display space by 10,000 sq. ft. Windows were added, and the walls resurfaced in soft French gray...
Chief Justice Warren Burger an nounced that his assets totaled between $600,000 and $730,000 and that he owes between $100,000 and $200,000 (the law requires the reporting of only a range of wealth, not specific amounts...
...last December to recognize Peking was greeted with outrage and dismay in Taiwan. President Chiang Ching-kuo denounced the move as a betrayal, saying that never before had the U.S. severed diplomatic relations with an ally. Two weeks after the announcement, U.S. negotiators, led by Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher, arrived in Taipei to discuss a new relationship. Christopher and U.S. Ambassador Leonard Unger were slightly injured when their car was attacked by angry demonstrators and the windows shattered. Christopher promptly warned that the talks would be called off unless the government guaranteed the safety of his mission. Shocked...