Word: counsels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cults issue was thrust into harsh focus by last November's carnage at the Peoples Temple commune in Jonestown, Guyana. The most dramatic moments of the four-hour hearing came from Jackie Speier, a legislative counsel who accompanied the late Congressman Leo Ryan on his fatal visit to the Rev. Jim Jones' headquarters and survived gunshot wounds. Speier stated that there are 10 million cult members in the U.S. and warned: "The most important fact about Jonestown is, it can happen again...
...yesterday the final CRR legislation, which passed the Faculty Council last December, is a sadly diluted version of their earlier package of reforms. The Council vetoed the recommended reforms to bar hearsay evidence from CRR hearings and to create an appeals board. The Council did agree to eliminate legal counsel at hearings and to set up guidelines for release of taped transcripts of the hearings. These reforms are procedural and therefore do not require a full Faculty vote. But, as Besvinick observed, the reforms were meant to work as a whole "What good does barring legal counsel do, when...
Before the resignation announcement yesterday, Neil L. Lynch, counsel to Gov. Edward J. King, said he did not see anything illegal or improper in Clifford's financial dealings. "I don't see any laws that have been violated," he said...
...struggle for self-determination, and we believe further that its lesson for our government is clear: don't interfere in such struggles, be they in Iran, Chile, the Philippines, South Africa, or elsewhere. Only then will Americans be regarded as friends by the people of these countries. Jack Levine Counsel and Treasurer, U.S. People's Committee on Iran
Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University, and Archie C. Epps III, dean of students, met with the SAC members to discuss their requests, initially formulated in an open letter last month to Graham T. Allison '62, dean of the Kennedy School of Government...