Word: abraham
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Seated at a table before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, his hands clasped tightly, the diminutive State Department legal adviser, Abraham Sofaer, hardly looked the role of enfant terrible. But after being praised publicly by Reagan and Secretary of State George Shultz, Sofaer last week stared straight ahead as Democratic Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts delivered a harsher verdict: "You may say the President hasn't created a constitutional crisis . . . maybe you have. Maybe your memorandum...
Hospitals are finding that animals ease patient isolation, as well as anxiety and distress. Three of the most popular visitors to elderly patients at Beth Abraham Hospital in New York City come from the A.S.P.C.A.: Jake, a bull mastiff; Boris, a 50-lb. Samoyed; and Regina, a tortoiseshell cat. At Children's Hospital in Denver, staff members and volunteers bring in their dogs, cleanly clad in smocks or T shirts, and make rounds of wards. Retirement and nursing homes are welcoming pets too. The Tacoma Lutheran Home in Washington boasts a menagerie of furry and feathery live-ins. Some have...
...other. Secretary of State George Shultz and his chief arms-control adviser Paul Nitze got President Reagan to declare that the SDI program is a research program permitted by the ABM treaty. But in 1985 other officials -- particularly Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Perle and State Department Legal Adviser Abraham Sofaer -- launched a campaign to "reinterpret" the pact. According to them, nothing in the treaty impinges on the right of the U.S. to go beyond research and actually test space-based systems...
...Justice Department wanted to proceed with the trial of Pollard and the indictment of his Israeli contacts, but the State Department argued that American relations with Israel should receive primary consideration. Secretary of State George Shultz spoke of Israeli "cooperation" on the case, and State Department Legal Adviser Abraham Sofaer headed a delegation that was sent to Israel to collect the documents Pollard had stolen. According to court records, Sofaer returned with a mere 163 documents out of the thousands that had been taken...
...journeyed to Frankfurt, West Germany, to meet with a group of Iranians and presented them with a Bible inscribed by the President with words from St. Paul's letter to the Galatians: "And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, 'All the nations shall be blessed in you.' " As he did so, he told them, according to the report, "We inside our Government had an enormous debate, a very angry debate, over whether or not my President should authorize me to say, 'We accept the Islamic Revolution of Iran...