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...sale of the 60 F-15 fighters to Saudi Arabia. He did so. with arguments remarkably similar to those that Reagan was to use three years later, chiefly that the U.S. had to increase its influence in the Middle East by helping moderate Arab states to defend themselves. Harold Brown, then Secretary of Defense, had to pledge that Saudi Arabia's F-15s would not be equipped with such offensive gear as range-extending fuel tanks and bomb racks...
...longtime Director J. Edgar Hoover, who had iron control of the earlier series, personally approving every actor cast as an FBI agent to be sure he "looked the part." The ensemble includes a black recruited from military intelligence, played in the pilot by Charles Brown and afterward by Harold Sylvester; a smashing-looking woman psychologist who teaches pistol-marks-personship (Carol Potter); a salon-coiffed, hip-talking pretty boy (Joseph Cali); and a sarcastic, ever grinning preppie athlete (Richard Hill). Their boss, portrayed by Mike Connors, star of Mannix (1967-75), is a tough-but-sensitive older man whose marriage...
Many Honolulans were unhappy last month after Circuit Judge Harold Shintaku, 54, threw out a jury's murder verdict and allowed Defendant Charles K. Stevens, a notorious criminal, to go free. Some 300 people rallied downtown in protest. The judge responded with a 20-page report explaining his action, but the city's most popular disc jockey told his audience: "Shintaku can take that report and shove it up his-nose." Then came news that Judge Shintaku had been found by relatives battered and dazed at his beachfront cottage. After doctors performed brain surgery for three hours...
...VANISHING HITCHHIKER by Jan Harold Brunvand Norton; 208 pages...
Here are former Secretary of Defense John S. McNamara (thank you for that skirmish in Southeast Asia), former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger '50 (thank you for those secret bombings in Cambodia and that stable dictator in Persia) and former Secretary of Defense Harold Brown supporting the AWACs sale. As Sen. Daniel P. Moynihan (D-N.Y.) pointed out in the Senate debate last week, Brown had written a letter to Congress on May 9, 1978--at the time of the debate over the sale of F-15 fighter planes--which stated that F-15s would "not be equipped with...