Word: chaires
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Secretary of State Cyrus Vance settled into a rocking chair in his hideaway study on the seventh floor of the State Department and discussed the Moscow SALT talks with TIME Correspondents Strobe Talbott and Christopher Ogden. Vance angrily denied that Soviet-American relations were now at their lowest point in years, stoutly defended the Administration 's "public diplomacy" and stressed that much in fact had been accomplished at the Moscow meeting. Excerpts from the interview...
Herschbach, whose current work concerns energy transfer during chemical reactions, said the effect of the appointment was "largely psychological." "I'm sitting in the same chair as before, only now it's called the Baird chair," he added...
...have been McCall's own wry tongue that knocked him out of the running. Back in 1974, the Republican was in line to chair the upcoming National Governor's Conference. (Jimmy Carter used his spot as chairman of the Democratic Governor's conference in that year as a launching pad for his own campaign. But after McCall labelled an address by Spiro Agnew as "One rotten, bigoted little speech," his prospects for heading the conference grew dim. The Republicans blacked him out completely after he endorsed the Democratic candidate to succeed him as governor, a post which he could...
...only state with a law calling for the death penalty for rape of an adult woman (Florida and Mississippi provide for execution for the rape of children). A local jury, after noting Coker's previous convictions for rape-murder and rape-kidnaping, ordered him to the electric chair. But Attorney Kendall contended before the Supreme Court Justices that death was so infrequently inflicted on rapists that its imposition violated the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment. Of 42 men convicted of rape in Georgia since 1973, 38 received only prison sentences...
...hope of avoiding the sort of ambassador he had criticized during his campaign, Carter asked Florida Governor Reubin Askew to chair a 20-person panel that would review potential ambassadors. Its members include Democratic Elder Statesmen Dean Rusk and Averell Harriman, Republican William Scranton and a sprinkling of academics and authors. For the past month, panel members have been meeting at the State Department in great secrecy, sifting a list of 400 names submitted by members of Congress, the foreign policy community and Carter's staff. Key criteria: foreign experience, language skills and "special considerations," a category that includes...