Word: appointed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Charging that the leadership of the Legal Services Corporation is not fulfilling its role in providing legal help to the poor, five prominent law school deans--including Harvard Dean James Vorenberg '49--sent a letter to President Bush urging him to quickly appoint a new board of directors...
Noting that Bush must appoint 11 members to the board, Corporation Chair Michael B. Wallace '73 said "For most agencies, it's hard enough to find one person...
...blistered the KGB as "that most secret and conspiratorial of all state institutions." Vlasov should know: in 1953 the Committee for State Security hauled off his father, a diplomat, and the man was never seen again. Make the KGB's budget public and give the Congress the right to appoint its head, urged Vlasov. Move the agency to modest offices in Moscow's suburbs. Turn its forbidding headquarters at Dzerzhinsky Square into a library. "The bloody history of the main building is too unforgettable," he said. "This is where, for decades, orders for the destruction and persecution of millions were...
...conditions, notably that any reductions negotiated would not take effect until separate talks under way in Vienna yield an agreement eliminating or at least lessening the Warsaw Pact's superior numbers in conventional troops and weapons. The West Germans have begun talking of the hoariest of all dodges: appoint a NATO committee to study what line to take toward short-range missile negotiations...
Junior professors have said that when they comeup for tenure, they are not sure how the committeewould handle their cases, since it was set upprimarily to appoint full professors from outsideHarvard. However, committee members haverepeatedly said they would also consider internalcandidates...