Word: blum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stomach- ache." She faces some daunting problems: the need for cuts to make up a projected deficit of $117 million and balance the budget, as required by law. But her four-year term will begin with a honeymoon -literally. In January, she will marry Investment Banker Richard Blum, who has been her unofficial political adviser for the past year...
...Corporation consists of President Bok, Putnam, and five Fellows of the College, and is the University's chief executive authority. Heiskell fills a vacancy created by John M. Blum, professor of American history at Yale, who left the Corporation in July...
...Corporation considered whether to replace Blum with an academic or to maintain its mix of two lawyers, two businessmen, and two academics, but decided that during the capital campaign the extra businessman would help, Putnam said. He added that Heiskell would probably not serve for more than five or six years...
...following day the black group called on Israeli Ambassador Blum and told him that it made "no apologies for our support of Palestinian human rights, just as we make no apologies to the P.L.O. for our continued support of the state of Israel." Replied Blum: "It's ridiculous to equate us with the P.L.O. It's like equating criminals to a police force...
...Palestinians is a human-rights issue, one in which they share an interest, and that the P.L.O. represents the Palestinians. The Israelis differentiate between the Palestinians and the P.L.O., insisting that the P.L.O. is simply a terrorist gang, with whom they will never negotiate. When Israeli U.N. Ambassador Yehuda Blum lectured black leaders for meeting with the P.L.O. representative to the U.N. and implied that blacks ought to leave Middle East policy to those who understand it, blacks were furious at being patronized. Replied the Rev. Joseph Lowery, president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference: "Who are you to tell...