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...Central Command Marine General Joseph Hoar confessed to a congressional committee that the failure was a basic one. "We were unable to locate the ship, clear and simple," he said. "We made every effort, and we were unable to do it." But the real problem, Navy insiders grumbled, was bad judgment at the top. Said an officer: "Initially there was no high priority for this assignment. We were told to look for the ship, no more." Meanwhile the vessels and aircraft best equipped for spotting the freighter in the 800,000- sq.-mi. area, the aircraft carrier America battle group...
Soon he was playing command performances forthe other students. "The whole class would say'Get up Raul,' and with an even thicker accentthan I have now, I would say 'Out, out, briefcandle," said Julia, smiling...
Michael Milken thought he had struck the deal of his life last week. But the idea that he might still command a fortune of up to $500 million even after paying out $900 million to victims of his crimes did not sit well with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. The agency scuttled, at least temporarily, a $1.3 billion settlement of suits brought by thousands of investors who said they had been bilked by the jailed junk-bond king's schemes...
...station operator from Picayune, Miss., he moved to Washington in 1967 and worked as a part-time doorman on Capitol Hill. He rose through the ranks to chief page and in 1983 became sergeant-at-arms of the House of Representatives. In that capacity Russ helped command a force of 1,265 black- suited police officers and oversaw the security of the 435 members of the House...
Reproducing Georgia benefits from the high quality of its script. Although in some parts the play ties together a bit too well--the artifice occasionally shows through too boldly--it has moments of great humor and wit. Hartman has an impressive command of the wit which makes the two and a half hours of this play...