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The deputy head of the U. S. embassy in London, Frank LeBaron, wrote in a letter to the Scottish first minister Alex Salmond that the U. S. believed al-Megrahi should remain in prison for his role in downing Pan Am flight 103 in 1988, and continued: " Nevertheless, if Scottish authorities come to the conclusion that Megrahi must be released from Scottish custody, the U. S. position is that conditional release on compassionate grounds would be a far preferable alternative to prisoner transfer, which we strongly oppose.
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According to Afghanistan's Chamber of Commerce and Industries deputy head, Khan Jan Alokozai, about 500 shipping containers of trade goods enter Afghanistan via Pakistan on a daily basis.
Although EDF claimed that a security firm had only been employed to monitor Greenpeace, the court disagreed, jailing the head and deputy head of EDF's nuclear security operation for three years each.
In 1921, he rose in the Bureau of Investigation to deputy head, and in 1924, the Attorney General made him the acting director.
During 1942 – 43 Philby's responsibilities were expanded to include North Africa and Italy, and he was made the deputy head of Section V under Major Felix Cowgill, an army officer seconded to SIS.
By 1922, Beria was deputy head of the Georgian branch of Cheka's successor, the OGPU.
In August 1938, Stalin brought Beria to Moscow as deputy head of the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs ( NKVD ), the ministry which oversaw the state security and police forces.
Although Beria's name is closely identified with the Great Purge because of his activities while deputy head of the NKVD, his leadership of the organisation marked an easing of the repression begun under Yezhov.
Among the executed were Zhdanov's deputy, Aleksei Kuznetsov ; the economic chief, Nikolai Voznesensky ; the Party head in Leningrad, Pyotr Popkov ; and the Prime Minister of the Russian Republic, Mikhail Rodionov.
Former first deputy chairman of the Supreme Soviet Anatoliy Luk ' yanov became chairman of the Supreme Soviet, but for the first time in the history of the USSR this position was stripped of powers of the head of state.
The head of the university was to be the chancellor, his deputy was the " pro-chancellor " ( always the archbishop ex officio ).
The executive head of the university is the rector magnificus ( that also have the title " vice-chancellor "), whose deputy is the prorector.
* Death — in this case, the deputy Head of government typically acts as the head of government until a new head of government is appointed.
He had been assigned to work with General Electric at Schenectady, New York State, to develop a nuclear propulsion plant for destroyers, but in May 1946, through the efforts of his wartime boss, Rear Admiral Earle Mills, who became the head of the Navy's Bureau of Ships that same year, Rickover was finally sent to Oak Ridge as the deputy manager of the entire project, granting him access to all facilities, projects and reports.
The first OMB included Roy Ash ( head ), Paul O ' Neill ( assistant director ), Fred Malek ( deputy director ) and Frank Zarb ( associate director ) and two dozen others.
Oster was the deputy head of the Military Intelligence Office.
Sheikh Abdullah Al Ghraifi, the deputy head of the Islamic Scholars Council, gave a clear warning of the clerics ' intent: " We have at our disposition 150, 000 votes that we will forward to the MPs, and I hope that they understand this message clearly.
In the end, the perpetrator turns out to be Professor Douglass (" Duggers "), his deputy head, a weird unmarried scientist living together with his mother and sister.
Part of a team charged with keeping inflation from crippling the war effort, Galbraith served as deputy head of the Office of Price Administration during World War II.
Afterwards, he worked for the Northeast China Department of Industries as deputy head of its production planning office.
From 1952 to 1958, he worked in the State Planning Commission as group head and deputy division chief.
On top of his generous salaries as DAF head, Reichsorganisationsleiter, and Reichstag deputy, he pocketed the large profits of the Westdeutsche Beobachter, and freely embezzled DAF funds for his personal use.
" In response to this nation-wide search for young party members, Song Ping, the first secretary of CPC Gansu Committee ( Gansu's governor ) discovered Hu Jintao and promoted him several ranks to the position of deputy head of the commission.
Butler's deputy, Frank Williams, was passed over to be his replacement as head of the Flying Squad because of his deal with Edwards ( which he thought would seal his promotion ) and his deal with another of the robbers who was never caught.
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Major public proof of the Soviet program, called Biopreparat, came when Dr. Kanatjan Alibekov, its first deputy director, defected to the U. S. in 1992.
According to the FSM U. N. deputy ambassador, Micronesia has since sought close bilateral relations with Israel in areas such as agriculture, technical training and health care training.
In 1967 he accepted the position of deputy assistant secretary with the U. S. Department of the Interior, where he was in charge of water quality and research.
When the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency was created on 1970, he became its deputy assistant administrator of policy.
Jones was assigned to duties as deputy director, J-3, U. S European Command, Stuttgart, Germany, on July 15, 1992.
According to a 1998 report created by William Brankowitz, a deputy project manager in the U. S. Army Chemical Materials Agency, the Army created at least 26 chemical weapons dump sites in the ocean off at least 11 states on both the west and east coasts.
Harding sent out the National Guard and 2, 200 deputy U. S. marshals to keep the peace.
17N resumed its attacks in November 1983, killing the deputy chief of the U. S. military assistance mission ( JUSSMAG ) Captain George Tsantes in retaliation for Papandreou's decision to renew the base rights agreement.
On July 19, 1879, Holliday and his business partner, former deputy marshal John Joshua Webb, were seated in their saloon in Las Vegas, New Mexico when former U. S. Army scout Mike Gordon got into a loud argument with one of the saloon girls whom he wanted to take with him.
However, Virgil at the same time continued to hold his position of deputy U. S. marshal, and it was in this federal capacity that he continued to chase robbers of stage coaches outside Tombstone city limits.
According to Micronesia's U. N. deputy ambassador, the country has since sought close bilateral relations with Israel in areas such as agriculture, technical training and health care training.
* Supervisory Deputy United States Marshal: for positions in the Marshals Service responsible for the supervision of three or more deputy U. S. marshals and clerks.
More than 200 U. S. marshals, deputy marshals, and special deputy marshals have been slain in the line of duty since Marshal Robert Forsyth was shot dead by an intended recipient of court papers in Augusta, Georgia, on January 11, 1794.
* Army Major General James Simmons, a former deputy commander of the U. S .- led multinational force in Iraq
With the help of Curly Messer, who was a deputy sheriff at the time, Mirabella moved the phone booth to its current site on U. S. 98.
His reputation for fairness and honesty was passed onto his son Lewis Martin who went on to serve as a Lycoming County prothonotary and as a deputy U. S. Marshal.
U. S. President Gerald Ford was informed of the seizure of the Mayaguez at his morning briefing with his deputy assistant for national security affairs, Brent Scowcroft.
* Raynard S. Kington, deputy director of the U. S. National Institutes of Health, and will become the president of Grinnell College
Lt. Gen. John C. H. Lee became Chief, Services of Supply, U. S. Army Forces British Isles, and later deputy theater commander, ETOUSA.
A similar organisation, the Institute for the Study of Human Knowledge ( ISHK ), exists in the United States, under the directorship of Stanford University psychology professor Robert Ornstein, whom Shah appointed as his deputy in the U. S.
In 1976, he worked for Daniel Patrick Moynihan's successful U. S. Senate campaign, serving as deputy issues director during the Democratic primary.
In March 1944 Lucas was assigned as deputy commander and later as commander of the U. S. Fourth Army, headquartered at Fort Sam Houston, Texas.
Carry said that Bowler was similar to the real-life black deputy U. S. Marshal Bass Reeves, in that " Reeves always got his man and would often pull off incredible tricks to bring people in.
Gen. Vincent Brooks, deputy director of operations at U. S. Central Command.
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