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...Wallach's behest, Meese intervened on behalf of the Wedtech Corp. in 1981, resulting ultimately in the defense contractor being awarded a $32 million contract. Meese also assisted Wallach in connection with a $1 billion Iraqi oil pipeline project, setting up a meeting between the San Francisco lawyer and then-National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane...
While at The Tribune, Wolfe made his first foray into the style that has now become his trademark. As Wolfe writes in the introduction to The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, he travelled to California at the behest of Esquire magazine, researching a story on custom-made automobiles. When it came time for Wolfe to write the piece, he found that he could not capture the flavor of his experiences in traditionally antiseptic journalistic prose...
...American proposals of late 1985 came as an unpleasant surprise to the Soviets, and to many in the U.S. as well. It was a move to ban mobile ICBMs, including single-warhead missiles like the planned Midgetman. The prohibition was shoehorned into the U.S. position at the behest of Perle and the Pentagon. They wanted to stop the Soviet deployment of mobiles, which had already begun...
That sentence was inserted at the behest of Shultz. It was intended as a hint of compromise. Another sentence had been included, however, at the insistence of Weinberger and Perle: "The sides should agree to begin exploring immediately means by which a cooperative transition to greater reliance on defensive systems, should such systems prove feasible, could be accomplished...
...Friend continues to influence the President's schedule. For the Reagan-Gorbachev Washington summit, she cast the charts of both men and determined that 2 p.m. on Dec. 8, 1987, was the most propitious moment for them to sign the intermediate-range nuclear forces treaty. At Nancy's behest, the entire summit was built around that hour. For the upcoming Moscow summit, Gorbachev's chart (he is a Pisces) has been recast alongside Reagan's (Aquarius...