Word: mccloskey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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More serious were reports that a growing number of Soviet AN-12 and AN-22 transports were airlifting supplies-ammunition, antitank missiles and surface-to-air missiles-to Syria. "If this turns out to be a massive airlift," said State Department Spokesman Robert McCloskey with exquisite delicacy, "it would tend to put a new face on the situation." Soon after, the U.S. admitted that it had begun to ship ammunition and missiles to the Israelis...
...into a second printing; compiling a list of Nixon's political "enemies"; requesting an IRS audit of the tax returns of a Teamster official who opposed the President; dispatching someone to pose as a Gay Liberationist and donate money to Nixon's New Hampshire primary opponent, Paul McCloskey, then turn the donation receipt over to the Manchester Union Leader (an emissary was indeed sent but decided to pose as a Young Socialist Alliance member instead); hiring young men to pose as homosexuals supporting McGovern at the Democratic National Convention; engineering telephone and mail campaigns supporting Nixon...
Died. Matthew H. McCloskey, 80, Philadelphia builder and crack fund raiser for the Democratic Party; of cancer; in Darby, Pa. Though he built his construction company into one of the ten largest in the U.S., it was as a money raiser for the Democrats that McCloskey was best known. In 1934 he organized the first $100-a-plate dinner, and over the next 30 years he raised millions in campaign contributions. In 1962 he was appointed Ambassador to Ireland by President Kennedy...
Stewart L. Udall, former secretary of the Interior, and Rep. Paul N. McCloskey (R-Calif.) will address the meeting today...
Make Way for Ducklings, by Robert McCloskey, Viking...