Word: counsels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tough ex-district attorney from Philadelphia, Sprague, 51, is the chief counsel and staff director of the Select Committee on Assassinations. During the past few months, he has shocked the House by acting like a Congress man. Complained Speaker Tip O'Neill: "Sprague was running the committee." Sprague demanded a "bare bones" $13 million budget for two years, lobbied House members in a grating fashion, and freely granted press interviews...
...most likely candidate is White House Counsel Robert Lipshutz, who at 55 is the Methuselah of the West Wing. With a calm and deliberate manner -sharply different from the laid-back informality of the other Georgians-he presides at the daily 8 a.m. senior staff meetings and mediates when other aides differ. Before going to Washington, he was a highly successful lawyer and a pillar of Atlanta's Jewish community. He began advising Carter in 1966 and served as his campaign treasurer...
This week Carter's Cabinet meets for the first time. The new President will probably also attend some of the first daily 8 a.m. staff meetings, to be presided over by White House Counsel Robert Lipshutz. High on the agenda: domestically, Carter's plans to reorganize the Executive Branch, reform welfare and stimulate the economy; in foreign affairs, a review of the negotiations over a new Panama Canal treaty and arms talks with the Soviets...
...people's rights." The end of the moratorium places a new burden on the trial courts. "Now they know for the first tune in ten years that to condemn someone to death may very well mean that the person will be put to death," says Jack Greenberg, director-counsel of the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense and Educational Fund. "The sense of responsibility will be greater." And although the American Civil Liberties Union lost its battle to keep Gilmore from the firing squad, Executive Director Aryeh Neier says he is "determined to make it as difficult as possible to execute anyone...
James A. Sharaf '59, associate general counsel to the University, said yesterday that such companies are "a fraud upon the University." But he added that no University action would be taken until Magee opens his office...