Word: clarks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Varsity Hockey vs. Northeastern, 8 p.m. JV Hockey vs. Northeastern, 3:30 p.m. Women's Varsity Swimming at Clark...
...Administration decided on restraint. Initially, the White House asked Iranian Prime Minister Mehdi Bazargan to intervene. But last Tuesday, after months of trying to steer his country on a rational course, Bazargan resigned in frustration and anger, thus bringing down his government. Carter then designated former Attorney General Ramsey Clark and onetime State Department Iranian Expert William Miller as his personal envoys, both of whom knew Khomeini; the Ayatullah refused to see them. After that, the U.S. consented to try the good offices of the Palestine Liberation Organization, and still later it called on the U.K. for help...
After Bazargan's government fell, the Administration's next step was to select Clark and Miller to fly to Tehran and negotiate with the Ayatullah. Clark had been an early U.S. supporter of Khomeini and had visited him last January in France; Miller was a former Foreign Service officer in Iran who had opposed Administration policy toward the Shah. The two men had already left for Iran when Khomeini announced that he would not meet with them. The White House told them to remain in Istanbul until the situation became clearer...
According to the testimony, Bird and Justice Mathew Tobriner, both liberals, frequently had note-taking aides sit in on their conversations with conservative Justice William Clark because they did not trust him. The antagonism between Bird and Clark reached the point where the chief justice refused to speak to either him or his clerks. More important, the testimony indicated that the court's procedures were slow, cumbersome, even archaic. That view was echoed by Robert Thompson, a former California appeals court justice, who told TIME Correspondent Edward J. Boyer that the court was taking on too many cases...
NONFICTION: African Calliope, Edward Hoagland Charmed Lives, Michael Korda Testimony: The Memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich, as related to and edited by Solomon Volkov The Duke of Deception, Geoffrey Wolff The Right Stuff, Tom Wolfe The White Album, Joan Didion Zebra, Clark Howard...