Word: counsels
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When U.S. District Judge Aubrey Robinson convened his court at 3:30 p.m., U.S. Attorney General Griffin Bell argued the case for the Government. The only significant opposition came from Harrison Combs, the U.M.W.'s veteran general counsel. Reminding the court that this was his third defense of the union in a Taft-Hartley proceeding, Combs pointed out that coal is still being exported, that substantial stockpiles exist and that negotiations between union and management had resumed. (Later he admitted that the talks were only preliminary. "We were just cussing each other as usual.") Combs said the union leadership...
...federal experts say that U.S. railroads, except for the handful that are in sound financial shape, simply cannot afford to keep their equipment properly maintained. Observed Raymond James, chief counsel and acting director of the Federal Railroad Administration's Safety Office: "The railroad system does not generate enough income to sustain itself. What gives first is maintenance, and it's getting worse." Despite a 10% increase in freight rates in 1974 and an annual expenditure of $9 billion in maintenance, the railroads since that year have reduced a backlog of $4.1 billion in needed repairs by only...
...influence to direct federal contracts to people and companies that said "thank you" in cash. Other Congressmen and many friends of Flood's will probably be touched by the investigation, which is already becoming known as "Floodgate." The House ethics committee is expected this week to name a special counsel and staff for a congressional investigation of Flood, who has so far come under investigation by at least eight separate U.S. Attorneys' offices...
...drop an indictment charging Park with 36 counts of assorted crimes, including bribery, mail fraud and failing to register as an agent of a foreign government. But Park could still risk jail should he commit perjury in his interrogation; and Leon Jaworski, the House Ethics Committee's Special Counsel, is persuaded that that fact will encourage him to tell it like...
Avital Shcharansky said relatives of her husband, Anatoly Shcharansky, had asked her to urge Americans to contact Konstantin Apraksyn, chairman of the Municipal Kollege Barristers of Moscow. Apraksyn "promised me and others that he would provide adequate counsel for my husband," she said...