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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Whatever posterity's verdict, Andrews is not alone in his enthusiasm. "I couldn't believe it, they were so powerful and beautiful," waxes J. Carter Brown, director of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, who next May is planning to mount the first Helga exhibition. "You are looking over the shoulder of a great master at work." Thomas Hoving, editor in chief of Connoisseur magazine and the leading impresario of fine-art hyperbole, proclaims that the group is "unique in art history -- to suddenly have before you this monumental body of great American painting. It's a mighty poke...
Since 1969, more than 1,200 members of the Black Hebrews, led by former Chicago Bus Driver Ben-Ami Carter, 41, have traveled from the U.S. to settle in Israel. Although they reject Jewish religious law and rabbinical authority, they claim to be descended from ancient Hebrew tribes and thus entitled to live in Israel. After studying the matter, Israel's Chief Rabbinate concluded that it could not substantiate their claim for residency. The group asked Israel's Supreme Court to block the government's expulsion order, but last week the court ruled that the government had acted lawfully...
Coincidentally, the importance of screening candidates for lifetime judicial appointments was underscored last week by the case of Harry Claiborne, chief judge of Nevada's U.S. district court. Last week Claiborne, a 1978 Jimmy Carter appointee, became the first federal judge to be impeached by the House of Representatives in a half-century and only the eleventh in history. The vote in the House was unanimous: 406 to 0. Convicted of tax evasion in 1984 and sentenced to two years in prison, Claiborne, 69, has refused to resign from the bench because he contends that he was a victim...
...rebuilt under the Marshall Plan. For Kennedy, he negotiated the Laos neutrality accords and the Limited Test Ban Treaty in 1963. For Johnson, he served as emissary to the Paris peace talks on Viet Nam in 1968. As late as 1976, when Harriman was 84, Democratic Presidential Nominee Jimmy Carter sent him to Moscow to give assurances to Leonid Brezhnev on arms control...
...seat they are seeking is being vacated by Wyche Fowler Jr., who is running for the nomination to oppose Republican Senator Mack Mattingly. Facing Fowler in the Democratic primary is Hamilton Jordan, President Carter's former chief of staff, who while recovering from lymphatic cancer last year ! decided to launch his own political career...