Word: appointer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rather than appoint a new officer immediately, Bok asked Farber to scout out upcoming proxy battles. 'Obviously, whether Steve will be able to handle it alone will depend on what happens this year," Bok said. "On the basis of last year, I wouldn't think a full-time person was needed...
...officials of the narcotics division and transferred 16 other commanders. Last week he demoted two inspectors and removed six precinct captains. He replaced the high-ranking chief of patrol with Inspector Donald Cawley, who was promoted past 72 others with more seniority. He reached out of the city to appoint a former chief of police from Long Island to head a new criminal-justice bureau. A wave of resentment swept through the station houses; Edward J. Kiernan, president of the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, accused Murphy of "the systematic destruction of the finest police department in the world...
...Thieu, he moved apparently to forestall what the CIA-whose field reports have been consistently accurate in the past-at this stage estimated to be a 40% chance of a coup attempt in the coming months. He handed out promotions to 29 generals and admirals. He also decided to appoint Colonel Nguyen Khac Binh, head of South Viet Nam's CIA-like Central Intelligence Organization, to oversee the national police. Binh will thus have at his command 200,000 armed men, including, besides patrolmen and traffic cops, the much-feared secret police...
...first national elections in 16 years, a majority of them probably punched the sign of the banyan tree on the ballot. Exactly how many will not be known until mid-August, when President Suharto will announce the results. But since the government had already reserved the right to appoint 100 members of the 460-member House of Representatives, there is little doubt that the military regime will obtain a clear majority in Parliament and thus be able to re-elect the quiet Javanese general as President...
Evidence is mounting that Democratic Senator George McGovern has big plans for the ladies. The only self-confessed candidate for the presidency in 1972, McGovern told the Woman's National Democratic Club that if he is elected he will immediately appoint a woman ambassador to the U.N., put women on the National Security Council and include them in his Cabinet. First vacancy on the Supreme Court would get a lady Justice too. "For almost 200 years now, the highest court of this land has been an exclusive all-male club," declared Candidate McGovern. "While justice is female...