Word: counsels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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George S. Abrams '54, counsel for Isaacs, said yesterday that police found the painting in a Newton hotel after an unidentified telephone caller alerted them to its whereabouts...
With Edwards in tow, CIA General Counsel Lawrence Houston warned Assistant Attorney General Herbert J. Miller Jr. that the CIA'S connection with the Mafia faced exposure if the snoopers were prosecuted. A day or so later, Houston and Edwards met with then Attorney General Robert Kennedy. He was upset but apparently not unduly alarmed. There would be no prosecution. His parting words were: "If you people want to get involved again with Mafia types, I want you to consult me first." It was Houston's impression that Kennedy had not known of the operation until that afternoon...
...Brain Bank of America: An Inquiry into the Politics of Science (McGraw-Hill; $10.95), which was published last week, Journalist Philip Boffey reports the bias and lethargy behind the marble facade of the academy's Washington, D.C., headquarters. Created by Congress in 1863 to provide impartial scientific counsel to the Government, the 1,000-member academy and its hundreds of committees provide guidance on many critical questions-from food additives to automotive emissions. In this important assignment, Boffey argues, the academy has frequently failed, turning in shallow, inaccurate advice, serving as an ally for industry, the Pentagon and other...
...explained by Presidential Counsel Philip Buchen, the White House liaison with the commission, the members found that the study of the assassinations "was almost a bottomless subject. If they were to go into the whole thing, it would have taken more time and resources than they had." The group could have asked for an extension and a larger staff, but the members clearly had no stomach for digging deeper into those affairs of the CIA. On Monday afternoon, four days before the report was delivered, the commission voted unanimously not to include any material on the foreign assassinations. However...
...most important thing this year was equal access," Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University, said last week. "There was no compelling need for merger, and there was a compelling need for equal access. It was the most important thing to get done...