Word: ben
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...impotence to a struggle for power between Hooks and Margaret Bush Wilson, 63, a St. Louis lawyer who heads the N.A.A.C.P. board. "On almost every issue there is a pro-Hooks faction and a pro-Wilson faction," says one board member. Wilson denies that there is any such rivalry ("Ben and I are both capable") or that she wants...
Both Vice President George Bush and Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker were invited to the conference; neither came. "There is no way to reach this Administration," complained Ben Andrews, a Republican member of the N.A.A.C.P. board. "We have been standing outside, throwing stones at the White House and nobody has been inside negotiating...
...great store of credibility among Israeli politicians or, for that matter, among his military colleagues. Throughout his long and controversial military career, he has rarely been far removed from the front pages, and more than once has been accused of insubordination. Israel's first Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion, was forced to make a public apology for a commando raid led by Sharon, then only 25, that killed scores of innocent Jordanians. Ben-Gurion castigated Sharon for "his weakness of not telling the truth." A few years later, Moshe Dayan, then chief of staff, considered court-martialing Sharon...
...Richard Ben-Veniste, 39, assistant special prosecutor whose tart questioning about missing tapes frequently rattled White House staff in court hearings. Still feisty, he is founding partner of Washington law firm. Was attorney for Abscam Defendant Howard Criden, Philadelphia lawyer. Filed suit on behalf of several clients against Air Florida after last winter's crash of Boeing 737 in Potomac River...
...addition to electing 71 male students, Harvard's Alpha branch-founded in 1781 and the oldest continuous Phi Beta Kappa chapter in the nation-extended honorary memberships to Konrad Bloch, Higgins Professor of Biochemistry; John E. Dowling '57, professor of Biology, Ben Zion Gold, director of Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel and chaplin for the ceremony; Alexander Duncan Langmuin '31, a former visiting professor of epidemology; and Swenson...