Word: mcnaughton
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...figure in the federal charges appeared to be a shadowy onetime Canadian gunrunner and self-styled philanthropist named Andrew R.L. McNaughton, 59, a friend of Contreras' with links to one of Tijuana's two Laetrile plants. Indicted with Contreras and McNaughton were Robert William Bradford, 45, president of the Committee for Freedom of Choice in Cancer Therapy, a California-based Laetrile-promoting outfit that claims 28,000 U.S. members, Dr. John A. Richardson, 53, an Albany, Calif., physician who has admitted giving Laetrile to patients, and several health-food distributors. According to the indictment, the conspirators-some...
...less than two minutes, Tickner set Sollers up twice and the score was tied, 3-3. Moments later, Ken McNaughton found the net for Princeton, and the visiting Tigers grabbed the lead...
...substitute for spoken language. They are patterned after "Blis-symbols," devised some 30 years ago by an Austrian-born chemical engineer named Charles Bliss in the hope that they would be used to promote international understanding. Hardly anyone paid any attention, though, until last year, when Shirley McNaughton, a teacher at the center, came upon an account of them in a library and decided that they might be modified for use by the handicapped...
...Times was that we began to examine General (James) Gavin's enclave proposal seriously and we decided we didn't have enough facts about where the troops were, where the civilian population was, and a great number of other important questions. We called somebody, I believe it was John McNaughton (Assistant Secretary of Defense for international security affairs) and asked him for a briefing and he said he would send up (Adam) Yarmolinsky (Special Assistant to the Secretary of Defense) to give us the data we wanted. And Yarmolinsky came up with a lot of facts and data...
...critical step in Ellsberg's career came in 1964, when he went to the Pentagon as a special assistant to lohn McNaughton, then Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs. He landed the job because of McNaughton's role in nuclear issues, such as the test-ban treaty. As a former professor put it: "Ellsberg just got drawn into Viet Nam, the same way McNaughton did, the same way all of us did." He became so drawn in that he seriously wanted to re-enter the Marine Corps, in which he had done a stint as an officer...