Michael Pillsbury, a Pentagon official, and Vincent Cannistraro pushed the CIA to supply the Stinger missile to the rebels.

" Michael Pillsbury, a senior Pentagon official, used Wilson's funding to provide Stinger missiles to the Afghan resistance in a controversial decision.

* Michael Pillsbury

" We began to understand that what to us was a very big deal back in Washington, from the point of view of the president, is a second order priority handled by one GS service officer ," according to Michael Pillsbury, Iklé's deputy.

* Michael Pillsbury

Since the passage of the Act of Settlement, the most senior member of the Royal Family to have married a Roman Catholic, and thereby been removed from the line and later lines of succession, is Prince Michael of Kent, who married Baroness Marie-Christine von Reibnitz in 1978 ; he was fifteenth in the lines of succession at the time of his marriage.

Doonesbury is a comic strip by American cartoonist Garry Trudeau, that chronicles the adventures and lives of an array of characters of various ages, professions, and backgrounds, from the President of the United States to the title character, Michael Doonesbury, who has progressed from a college student to a youthful senior citizen in the 40 + years of the strip's daily existence.

Fox senior vice president for news Michael Clemente issued a statement saying, " This was a production error in which the copy editor changed a script and didn't alert the control room to update the video ".

Flynn's tirade was itself attacked in response as " disgraceful " on live radio by Michael McDowell, a senior member of the Progressive Democrats, then in coalition with Fianna Fáil and up to that point supporting Lenihan's campaign.

Other members of the Imperial Family present included the descendants of the Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna including Prince Michael Andreevich of Russia the senior direct male descendant.

Like other senior members of the party, after having no conservative government since Alexander Mair in 1941, Robson had no experience in government, had little interest in policy and alienated many party members by trying to forge a closer alliance with Michael Bruxner's Country Party.

After Nicolas I became Tsar, however, Bakunin senior gave up politics and devoted himself to the care of his estate and the education of his children, five girls and five boys, the oldest of whom was Mikhail ( Michael ).

A senior general, he forced his predecessor, Michael I Rangabe, to abdicate and assumed the throne.

Romanus IV was now the senior emperor and guardian of his stepsons and junior co-emperors, Michael VII, Konstantios Doukas, and Andronikos Doukas.

On January 1, 1068, Eudokia married the general Romanos Diogenes, who now became senior co-emperor alongside Michael VII, Konstantios, and another brother, Andronikos.

After the dispatch of Eudokia to a monastery, Michael VII was crowned again on October 24, 1071 as senior emperor.

In August 1922 ( the same month that saw the deaths of Michael Collins and Arthur Griffith ), Na Fianna Éireann sustained a heavy blow when two of their senior officers in Dublin, Seán Cole and Alf Colley, were shot dead by Free State Army Intelligence members at The Thatch, Whitehall.

The Pennsbury High School prom has become world famous, and in 2004, the novel " Wonderland: A Year in the Life of an American High School " by Sports Illustrated senior writer Michael Bamberger was released to critical and commercial acclaim.

Zeta-Jones met actor Michael Douglas, with whom she shares a birthday, and who is exactly 25 years her senior, at the Deauville Film Festival in France in August 1998, after being introduced by Danny DeVito.

It was later revealed that the decision to withdraw had been agreed at an emergency meeting during the day between Norman Lamont, Prime Minister John Major, Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd, President of the Board of Trade Michael Heseltine and Home Secretary Kenneth Clarke ( the latter three all being strong pro-Europeans as well as senior Cabinet Ministers ), and that the interest rate hike to 15 percent had only been a temporary measure to prevent a rout in the pound that afternoon.

He was handed a place in Roy Evans ' senior squad with Steve Heighway stating that: " is ready for whatever you throw at him ; nothing fazes Michael Owen.

Michael Lewellen, BET's senior vice president for corporate communications, defended the decision: " We weighed a number of different options.

Other alumni include Chris Hartnett, CEO of USA Global Link, who received his BA from MUM, Michael C. Dimick, a Natural Law Party candidate who received his MBA degree, and Jennie Rothenberg-Gritz who is the senior editor for TheAtlantic. com A son of Joaquim Chissano, then President of Mozambique, and several children of his cabinet members received scholarships to Maharishi International University in the mid-1990s.

Questacon was the brainchild of Michael Gore, a senior lecturer in Physics at the Australian National University, who became its first director.

In 2011, several former senior US officials, including Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge, three former chairmen of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, two former directors of the CIA, former commander of NATO Wesley Clark, two former US Ambassadors to the United Nations, the former U. S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey, a former White House Chief of Staff, a former commander of the United States Marine Corps, former U. S. National Security Advisor Frances Townsend, and US President Barack Obama's retired National Security Adviser General James L. Jones called for the MEK to be removed from its official listing on the U. S. State Department list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations, on the grounds that they constituted a viable opposition to the Iranian regime.

In 2007, Hirst was quoted as saying of An Oak Tree by Goldsmiths ' senior tutor, Michael Craig-Martin: " That piece is, I think, the greatest piece of conceptual sculpture.

* Michael Barone, television commentator, senior writer for U. S. News & World Report, author

Several Heritage Foundation personnel have served, or gone on to serve, in senior governmental roles, including: Richard V. Allen, L. Paul Bremer, Elaine Chao, Lawrence Di Rita, Michael Johns, John Lehman, Edwin Meese, Steve Ritchie, and others.

During her senior year at high school she dated and went to the prom with Michael Bray, who would later become an anti-abortion activist who was convicted for acts of terrorism.

Cranbrook has many notable alumni, including designer Florence Knoll, Daniel Ellsberg of Pentagon Papers fame, former U. S. Senator Alan K. Simpson, Heisman Trophy winner Pete Dawkins, former Massachusetts governor and Presidential candidate Mitt Romney and his wife Ann Romney ( née Davies ), columnist Michael Kinsley, Sun Microsystems founder Scott McNealy, former professional soccer player Alexi Lalas, and actress Selma Blair.

He was asked to leave Northampton in July 1767 by the authorities ; while no official reason is known, biographer Michael Bellesiles suggests that religious differences and Allen's tendency to be disruptive may have played a role in his departure.

Unification Church official Michael Jenkins ( who later became president of the Unification Church of the United States ) commented in 1989 on his views of why the Unification Church was shifting its public stance regarding use of the word: " Why, after so many years, should we now be taking such a stand to eliminate the term ' Moonie?

The first official relaunch novel, The Good That Men Do by Andy Mangels and Michael A. Martin was published by Pocket Books on February 28, 2007, and gives a different perspective on the events shown in the final episode.

Japan War dead figure of 415 is from a 1991 history of the Japanese Army However, Michael Clodfelter reported the official toll was put at 300 KIA and noted that " A more reliable count of total Japanese military deaths from all causes lists 1, 344 fatalities.

* Michael Psellos, Byzantine writer, philosopher, official, and historian

One 419 scam that ended in murder occurred in February 2003, when Jiří Pasovský, a 72 year old scam victim from the Czech Republic, shot and killed 50 year old Michael Lekara Wayid, an official at the Nigerian embassy in Prague, and injured another person, after the Nigerian Consul General explained he could not return $ 600, 000 that Pasovský had lost to a Nigerian scammer.

Although an official policy of anti-Semitism did not exist in the Soviet Union, Michael Brin claims Communist Party heads barred Jews from upper professional ranks by denying them entry to universities, as Jews were excluded from the physics departments in particular.

:" The first pope who used it in an official act and relied upon it, was Leo IX ; in a letter of 1054 to Michael Cærularius, Patriarch of Constantinople, he cites the " Donatio " to show that the Holy See possessed both an earthly and a heavenly imperium, the royal priesthood.

Upon Phil Jackson's departure, Michael Jordan made his second retirement official.

Domestically, Michael supported and strengthened the resumption of official iconoclasm, which had begun under Leo V.

Responding to a claim by an anonymous law enforcement official that she would not speak to federal investigators without a promise of legal immunity, Olsen's attorney Michael C. Miller said:

The theory that Wolfgang Grams was executed in revenge for the death of GSG 9 operative Michael Newrzella during the mission ( Grams had shot and killed Newrzella when Newrzella tried to tackle him ) was discredited by the official investigation which found that Grams committed suicide.

Belmont County's county flag was designed in 1988 by local state official Michael Massa.

The official album comes with several paintings by Peter Goodfellow, Geoff Taylor and Michael Trim that help to illustrate the story from beginning to end.

The Obelisk featured Robert Smith ( still playing piano at this point ), alongside Marc Ceccagno ( lead guitar ), Michael Dempsey ( guitar ), Alan Hill ( bass ) and Laurence Tolhurst ( percussion ) and, according to The Cure's official biography Ten Imaginary Years, gave their only performance at a school function in April 1972.

* Michael Howard MP official site

* Conservative Party: Michael Howard official profile of the Party Leader

Miami liquor wholesaler Michael Gallagher ( Newman ) is the son of a deceased criminal who awakes one day to find himself a front-page story in the local newspaper, indicating that he is being investigated in the disappearance and presumed murder of a local longshoreman union official, Joey Diaz.

For example, from literature: Shirley Ann Grau, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner, and Andrew Breitbart, conservative journalist ; from business: David Filo, co-founder of Yahoo !, and Neil Bush, economist and brother of President George W. Bush ; from entertainment: Lauren Hutton, film actor and supermodel, and Paul Michael Glaser, TV actor of " Starsky and Hutch "; from music: conductor and composer Odaline de la Martinez, who was the first woman to conduct at a BBC Proms concert in London ; from government: Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the House who famously coordinated the first Congressional Republican majority in 40 years, and Luther Terry, former U. S. Surgeon General who issued the first official health hazard warning for tobacco ; from medicine: Michael DeBakey, inventor of the roller pump, and Dr. Regina Benjamin, President Obama's Surgeon General ; from science A. Baldwin Wood, inventor of the wood screw pump and Lisa P. Jackson, United States Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) Administrator under President Obama ; from sports: Bobby Brown, former New York Yankees third baseman and former president of the American League.

* Robert Shea's Official Website: Robert J. Shea's official website maintained by his son, Michael E. Shea.

RPO players have been involved with many performances away from the classical repertory, including Yanni Live at the Acropolis, a concert held in Greece in 1993, conducted by Shahrdad Rohani ; the Hooked on Classics series of records ; orchestral arrangements of rock music by the likes of Pink Floyd, Elkie Brooks ( on the album Amazing ), Oasis, Queen, George Michael, R. E. M., U2, and ABBA ; the song / album, Art of Life by Japanese rock band X Japan, composed by Yoshiki Hayashi ; the official theme music of the UEFA Champions League ( UEFA Champions League Anthem ), tracks on the British folk metal band Skyclad's 2004 album A Semblance of Normality the Symphonic Rock: A Symphony of Hits 2004 album ; and the BBC Grandstand Theme in 1982 ; Seotaiji Symphony, a concert held in Seoul in 2008, with South Korean rock star Seo Taiji, conducted by Tolga Kashif.

The first pope who used it in an official act and relied upon, Leo IX, cites the " Donatio " in a letter of 1054 to Michael Cærularius, Patriarch of Constantinople, to show that the Holy See possessed both an earthly and a heavenly imperium, the royal priesthood.