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...current and probably last of the Canal Zone's 17 American Governors, Major General Harold R. Parfitt, 56, spends much of his time trying to persuade canal employees to stay on. He objects to the term "exodus," but admits there has been "an increase and a trend" in resignations, even though most of the people could remain for the next 23 years under the agreement, working for the new "entity" that would replace the canal company until Panama gains full control. Says Pilot Marshall Irwin: "I don't intend to work for a dictator...
...Safety in 1635. Jimmy's 11th generation ancestor Thomas became a well-to-do Virginia planter, while his elder brother John acquired an even richer swath of Old Dominion farm land. It was John's son, Robert ("King") Carter, who became the first American millionaire. According to Harold Brooks-Baker, Debrett's managing director, hustling King Carter owned 300,000 acres, more than 1,000 slaves and perhaps the largest collection of books in the colonies -at a time, notes Brooks-Baker, when "wealth was measured by the number of fine volumes you had." King was also...
...rioting touched off by this anniversary in 1969 that prompted the British to send in the army-which has been tied down in Ulster ever since. But the Queen could not be blamed for the timing of the trip. The scheduling was set by then Prime Minister Harold Wilson and his Cabinet way back...
...secondary quartet of foreign policymakers consists of Young, Defense Secretary Harold Brown, Arms Control Director Paul Warnke and CIA Director Stansfield Turner. The two circles overlap in ways that increase consultation and give and take. Brown, for example, lunches each week with Brzezinski and Vance, and he is highly regarded in the White House, says one official there, as "a lot more than just a spokesman for the generals and the military-industrial complex." The outspoken Young has his own special relationship with the President, who pays close heed to his opinions and has no regrets about the way Young...
Carter got word of the tragedy while at a state dinner for visiting West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. The President remained at the party. But National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski rounded up Pentagon Chief Harold Brown and Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and headed to the Situation Room of the White House to study possible U.S. responses. Joining the session an hour later, Carter ordered that the initial U.S. reaction be conciliatory. Thus Press Secretary Powell announced that "any penetration of North Korean airspace that may have taken place was unintentional and regrettable...