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When you put the shotgun up against her left cheek and pulled the trigger, did you love your mother...
While there is little overlap in the Paramount and Viacom lines of business, there is plenty of redundancy in the executive suite, which could trigger a management shuffle. Davis, who would move from chairman and chief executive of Paramount to CEO of the new company under Redstone, told TIME last week, "Let's face it, I've taken a step down in title, and I do expect others to follow...
Kessler also details another elaborate plan, in which high-tech devices were planted in the headrests of KGB cars. These would trigger sensors at specific intersections in Washington, allowing the bureau to keep track of KGB movements without recourse to machines that required replacement tapes or batteries. One car did not have a headrest, so agents planted the device in the glove compartment. When the car was brought in for a regular inspection, KGB mechanics found the bug and quickly inspected other vehicles for similar spy paraphernalia. By then the FBI had infiltrated 20 cars. The KGB removed every single...
...allies cobbled together a compromise committing the alliance to prepare air strikes but not specifying when or how to undertake them. They left undecided knotty issues of whether the U.N. or NATO would command the strikes, the range of acceptable targets and the degree of Serb aggression necessary to trigger the raids...
With studied dramatics, Nunn posed several possible statements to Defense Department general counsel Jamie Gorelick. "I am a homosexual," he read from his paper. "Yes," answered Gorelick, that would trigger the presumption. "I am a lesbian," Nunn intoned. "Yes." "I am bisexual," said Nunn, who once fired two staff members for being gay, claiming they were security risks. "Yes." Finally, Nunn sprung one Gorelick hadn't expected. "I have a homosexual orientation," he said. Gorelick hesitated. Homosexual "orientation" was exactly what the new regulations tolerated in a military man or woman; admitting to it, however, was not. Yes, she agreed...