Word: bosse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that he had improperly collected unemployment benefits while running a Washington restaurant consulting firm. However, Schneiders was cleared last week by U.S. Attorney Earl J. Silbert of any wrongdoing and is expected to get another job. Meantime, Carter named Tim Kraft, 35, to handle his appointments. Kraft impressed his boss by engineering the key victories in the Iowa caucus and the Pennsylvania primary...
...Ruzyně, interrogated nonstop for as long as 14 hours and then released-only to have the intimidating procedure repeated in a day or so. Their "crime": being among the more than 300 Czechoslovaks who have signed Charter 77, a 3,000-word petition that calls upon Communist Party Boss Gustav Husák's repressive regime to live up to the pledges it made at Helsinki...
Unknown Quantity. The Europeans are aware of your mandate in the new Administration, and they will be measuring you closely. There is still a great deal of nervousness about your boss, who is an unknown quantity to most of the leaders. They will want reassurance that high-level briefings on security arrangements with the Soviet Union, mainly on SALT talks, will continue as they did under Kissinger. They will want to talk about the Middle East and southern Africa. A few want to bring up Yugoslavia, to get your personal reading on what Carter would really do if the Russians...
...Morris did not get into serious trouble until he attacked the swine flu program, charging that it would probably not work and might be very dangerous. Morris's boss asked a panel of vaccine experts--many of whom Morris had frequently criticized--to evaluate Morris's performance as a scientist. The panel concluded that most of Morris's experiments were "either not relevant...or...poorly designed and implemented...
While Morris's boss wanted him fired for "insubordination" and "inefficiency," an independent hearing examiner ruled that Morris's infractions were minor, and that the scientist should be suspended for at most five days. But Alexander M. Schmidt, then Commissioner of the FDA, overruled the examiner, and on July 16, 1976, J. Anthony Morris was fired...