Word: warrener
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During last week's hearings, Republican Senator Warren Rudman of New Hampshire waved an invoice that, he said, showed that one of Secord's companies (East, Inc.) had billed another of his firms (Lake Resources) $100,357 for the salaries of private American pilots used in air-dropping weapons to the contras. This, said Rudman, meant that the pilots should have been getting $450 a day. In fact, according to Rudman and a witness, former CIA Agent Felix Rodriguez, the pilots were paid at most $150 a day, suggesting that East, Inc., earned about $35,000 on this transaction alone...
Private U.S. citizens who donated to the cause described how North and others would give a strong pep talk about the needs of the contras and then leave it to private fund raisers like Carl Channell to ask directly for donations. Republican Senator Warren Rudman described it as a "one-two punch." According to William O'Boyle, a New York City oil investor who testified last week, he was told by North that as a Government employee he could not directly ask for donations. But Joseph Coors, a Colorado brewing- company executive, testified that in January 1986 North did personally...
ENGAGED. Janet Guthrie, 49, the only woman to drive a racing car in the Indianapolis 500, in 1977-79 (her best finish: ninth in 1978), now a highway- safety consultant; and Warren Levine, 53, an American Airlines captain; in Aspen, Colo...
...like The Heartbreak Kid and A New Leaf, whose fine individual qualities are overlooked by the great, noisy media bash of the age. Beatty is, of course, Beatty: a man in whose career- drama the actual movies he stars in are merely incidents. In a daringly speculative new book, Warren Beatty and Desert Eyes (Doubleday; $17.95), Critic David Thomson puts it this way: Beatty's ambition now is "to see if he can be only a star -- not a star kept alight by regular work and appearance, but a star who exists according to the self-perpetuating mechanics of stardom...
...Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman star in a road picture like the old Hope- Crosby comedies. Ishtar is funny, but its $40 million cost...