Word: berkeley
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Others are not so sure, "I would not be so glib as to think it couldn't happen again," says Epps. 'That was our problem in 1969--we were too smug, not adequately prepared. We thought we were different from Columbia and Berkeley."NATHAN M. PUSEY...
...nearby Berkeley, Mitterrand's French press corps reveled in the parade of West Coast characters: gay rights activists heckling Governor George Deukmejian, Hare Krishnas chanting in their saffron robes, all-purpose cranks going about their lonely protests. Declared one placard: ALL POLITICIANS, OF LEFT OR RIGHT, ARE PIGS. Every passing flake drew an appreciative "Oh, j'adore!" from the French entourage...
White House advisers have no personal objection to Jensen, 55, a former district attorney of Alameda County, Calif, who had earlier (1958-66) been an assistant D.A. there when Meese was a deputy in the same office. Jensen helped organize the mass arrests of Berkeley students during the Free Speech Movement of the mid-'60s and prosecuted radicals such as Huey Newton and the kidnapers of Patty Hearst. Jensen does not need Senate confirmation, but his tenuous status could be an election-year liability, reminding voters of the disarray at the department and the ethical quandaries that have plagued...
...regatta serves as the season opener for Harvard, which will face 11 of the nation's top teams, including Yale, Navy, Stanford, Washington and the University of California at Berkeley...
Friends say Meese's dream was to be Attorney General, and when William French Smith stepped aside, Reagan was quick to oblige. Meese's legal qualifications were hardly overwhelming: a 1958 graduate of the University of California Law School at Berkeley, he spent eight years as deputy district attorney for Alameda County, Calif.; worked briefly as a button-down attorney in private industry; and from 1978 to 1980 taught criminal law at the University of San Diego Law School. (As a professor and consultant, he earned less than $100,000 a year. His White House salary...