Word: welched
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Using a pressure man-to-man defense, they "shut off the lane very well," according to manager Tom Welch. Bob Hooft, who is leading Harvard with a 28.9 scoring average, was unsuccessful driving inside and paced the Crimson scoring with only 13 points...
...addition to these basic issues, other key questions involving the CIA will confront the new session of Congress. The agency argues that last month's assassination of Richard S. Welch, the CIA station chief in Athens, resulted from the printing of his name by the Fifth Estate, a Washington-based group dedicated to exposing covert U.S. intelligence activities. Colby favors a law that would make it a crime for a former CIA employee to reveal secrets he learned at the agency. But liberals in Congress and most journalists are certain to oppose any such sweeping gag rule...
William E. Colby had just returned from Richard Welch's funeral at Arlington National Cemetery. Still dressed in a somber charcoal gray pin-stripe suit and dark tie, the CIA Director held a 90-minute interview with TIME Correspondent Strobe Talbott. Colby's successor-designate, George Bush, is expected to be confirmed by the Senate shortly after Congress reconvenes next week. Soon after that Colby will retire, ending a quarter-century in the CIA. In the excerpts, Colby gives his personal views on a number of issues involving the record of the CIA and its proper role...
...been singing and dancing since I was a kid, and I never had a chance to use it in any of my movies," complains Actress Raquel Welch, 35. That, she says, is why she has begun a ten-week nightclub tour through Mexico, the U.S. and Europe. In Mexico City, she notes happily, a sellout crowd of 1,200 paid $80 apiece to catch her song-and-dance act on New Year's Eve. At the Concord Hotel in upstate New York, 3,400 customers came for her show, setting a record for the hotel. Says Raquel...
...officials angrily blamed an English-language paper in Greece, the Athens News, for identifying Welch and eight other embassy employees as CIA operatives in an anti-CIA article published November 25. The article included even home addresses and telephone numbers. Welch, it said, "lives at No. 5 Queen Frederica in Psychico. The reader can telephone him for his comments on these accusations at 671-2055." The Athens News, an anti-American journal, may have indirectly got its lead about Welch from Counterspy, the quarterly newsletter of a Washington-based outfit called the Fifth Estate, whose purpose is to expose covert...