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That possibility is what makes landowners edgy. Says Clifford Hansen, a former Wyoming Governor and Senator whose family grazes cattle in Grand Teton National Park: "I'm old enough to remember when ranchers paid a $150 bounty on the wolf, and in those times they would not pay that kind of money to counter a trivial threat...
ATTORNEYS WHO CONTEND THAT DEMOCRATIC PATRIARCH CLARK CLIFFORD, 85, is too ill to stand trial for his alleged role in the B.C.C.I. scandal could well be right. When Clifford sought heart surgery at the Washington Hospital Center in July, doctors quietly determined that his heart was too weak to withstand an operation. "He has practically no heart muscle left," says a medical source. Clifford was later hospitalized briefly for internal bleeding. His lawyers now plan to ask a New York judge to dismiss the charges against him on the ground that the rigors of a trial could cause a fatal...
Over the decades, a parade of big-name U.S. peacemakers came and went. George Ball, Dean Acheson, Cyrus Vance and Clark Clifford all broke their picks on the problem...
...scene that captured the news last week was of stately superlawyer Clark Clifford, that icon of Washington power brokering for five decades, clutching his fedora and lowering his well-worn face in a Manhattan courtroom. There he and his younger partner Robert Altman faced charges that they took millions in bribes to act as front men for the notorious Bank of Credit & Commerce International. But even more significant may be a legal move related to the grand jury indictments of last week: Saudi Sheik Kamal Adham, the longtime head of Saudi Arabian intelligence and one of the most powerful...
...Justice Department, it has been New York's Morgenthau who has set the agenda. The Saudis claim that his father, former Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau, was instrumental in persuading President Harry Truman to recognize the new state of Israel. (The theory is shaky: ironically, it was a young Clark Clifford who, as Truman's political counselor, did most to win recognition for Israel...