Word: andrews
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...talk about the Soviet Union at Annapolis. But before he left for a quiet weekend of preparation for the speech at Camp David, the President canvassed five top Administration foreign policy leaders for their views on the growing East-West tensions: Vance, Brzezinski, Defense Secretary Harold Brown, U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young and CIA Chief Stansfield Turner...
...Carter's criticism of Soviet activities in Africa. It was now up to Pretoria to convince the U.S. Administration of "the realities facing Africa," he said. Significantly, Carter made little mention of Zaïre in his Annapolis speech; he may well have been responding to U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young's argument that the U.S. must not lose sight of the far greater importance of the black-white struggle in southern Africa. At the Paris meeting, the U.S., as well as Britain and Belgium, argued for an African military force with a specific and limited mission: to support...
...Andrew W. Mellon Foundation yesterday announced a $340,000 grant to support research on women's studies by Harvard faculty members and other scholars who utilize the research materials at the Radcliffe Data Resource Center at Radcliffe's Schlesinger Library...
...play is less polemical than comedic. It begins .with a family confab in Lady Britomart Undershaft's London town house. Long estranged from Andrew, the haughty lady (Betty Leighton) knows her select social turf, but that's all. Daughter Sarah (Janet Barkhouse) is enamored of a bean-brained fop (Briain Pet-chey) and Barbara is in love with Adolphus Cusins (Tom Kneebone), an impecunious teacher of Greek...
Summoned home after a 20-year absence to underwrite these marriages, Andrew is most concerned that Barbara should be squandering her high passion on the Salvation Army. He agrees to see her shelter if she and Cusins will visit his cannon works. At the shelter, we meet sycophantic derelicts, ruffians and pitiably broken men. But it is Undershaft who nonchalantly breaks Barbara's heart, and opens her eyes. He signs a check for ?5,000, matching a sum from a notorious distiller named Bodger, so that the Salvation Army shelters may stay open. When the Army's general...