Word: william
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...William E. Colby, 59, former CIA director, repenting the agency's use of organized-crime figures in an early '60s Castro assassination plot: "You couldn't find a more inept crowd than the Mafia...
...Christopher Byron and Alexander Taylor, Reported by William Blaylock/Washington, with other U.S. bureaus
...this time was that he was uncertain about the possibility of getting additional assistance after Jan. 20, when the Reagan Administration takes power in Washington. Reagan opposed the original Chrysler bailout package, and after Inauguration Day his aides will sit on the board that will determine federal aid. G. William Miller, the outgoing Treasury Secretary, last week held meetings of the Loan Guarantee Board and said he thinks it is "in the national interest" to keep Chrysler alive. The board was expected to consider the company's aid request officially this week...
Eddie Jessup (William Hurt) is a professor at the Harvard Medical School. Years before, he had studied the nature of schizophrenia by immersing his subjects-and later himself-in a dark tank of warm water. Now, continuing his experiment under the apprehensive eyes of his wife Emily (Blair Brown) and his colleagues (Bob Balaban and Charles Haid), Eddie determines that "our other states of consciousness are as real as our waking states. And that reality can be externalized." He imagines, or remembers, himself as primitive man; he becomes that lithe, voracious ape-human...
...packed federal courtroom in Washington last week, the many retired FBI agents on hand chorused an audible sigh of relief. That was when Judge William Bryant announced the sentences for two former top agents convicted on Nov. 6 for their roles in approving illegal break-ins during the Nixon Administration in the early 1970s. Found by a jury to have conspired to violate citizens' Fourth Amendment rights to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures, W. Mark Felt, 67, who had been the FBI's deputy director, and Edward S. Miller, 52, once its chief of domestic intelligence...