Word: blanchard
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...occupied territory. Such lack of due process, said Kissinger, is "in utter disregard of the established procedures and machinery, and is gravely damaging the I.L.O. and its capacity to pursue its objectives in the human-rights field." On Nov. 5, 1975, he wrote a letter to Director General Francis Blanchard, giving the required two-year notice for pulling out of the I.L.O. Unless the Carter Administration acts, the withdrawal becomes effective this week...
...Geneva, I.L.O. staffers in the organization's new $65 million building are expecting the worst from Washington. There are rumors that Director General Blanchard is planning to fire 400 staffers, some of whom get lucrative salaries of from $24,000 to $60,000 annually. Yet no one?not Kissinger two years ago, nor the Carter Administration now, nor even George Meany?seriously wants the U.S. to pull out of the I.L.O., at least permanently. Critics do see a threatened U.S. withdrawal as a prod for necessary reform, the only measure that will goad the organization into getting off its political...
...observational data being accumulated at those institutions is probably more interesting for the visitors than Harvard's theoretical research since the Chinese stress applied research over basic research, Paul Blanchard, special assistant to the director of the observatory, said Friday...
When Fair became commander of the Army's 50,000-man V Corps in West Germany last August, it was only a matter of time before he clashed with his boss, General George S. Blanchard, the U.S. Army's European commander. Both men had won their commissions in the same year-1944-but Blanchard got his from West Point, and Fair was a tough, up-from-the-ranks infantryman who had gone on to officers' school...
...Blanchard fretted that Fair's tough-guy approach might reverse the gradual improvement of morale from its post-Viet Nam nadir of racial conflict, drug abuse, alcoholism and boredom. A former commander of the 82nd Airborne Division, Blanchard, 55, is no cream puff either. But by contrast with Fair, he adopted a more relaxed attitude toward his forces, encouraging his troops to take time off, learn German and meet local people. He approached enlisted men as citizens in uniform...