Word: edward
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...Senate, Democrats led by Edward Kennedy and Joseph Biden reviewed Rehnquist's opposition to desegregation and cited a newly discovered memorandum the Justice wrote in 1970 opposing the Equal Rights Amendment. But only about 30 Senators are committed to blocking the nomination, with several more wavering. Said a Biden aide: "That doesn...
...September to the firing of 74 of some 1,400 CBS News employees. (In all, about 600 of the 24,000 jobs at CBS were eliminated in 1985.) The move infuriated CBS News journalists, whose independence is a cherished tradition stretching back to the days of Edward R. Murrow. Adding to the outcry were complaints about efforts to jazz up -- critics said trivialize -- the division's approach to reporting the news. As discontent grew, a group of senior CBS journalists, including Anchorman Rather, 60 Minutes Executive Producer Don Hewitt and Commentator Bill Moyers, made an offer to buy the news...
Much of the news division's rancor had focused on Sauter, an 18-year CBS veteran who climbed from news division president to executive vice president of the Broadcast Group, but who also took back the news division title after the incumbent president, Edward Joyce, was shunted aside last December. CBS journalists were scathing about the role they felt that Sauter, a former journalist, had played in adding dollops of entertainment value to the news side. In particular, he drew scorn for hiring Phyllis George, a onetime Miss America, as an anchor for the ailing Morning News; George was later...
...sustain a veto, Reagan will need to pick up more than 20 votes in the Senate, where the sanctions bill passed by an overwhelming 84 to 14. The President hopes to win over some Senators by nominating Edward Perkins, a black career diplomat who is now U.S. envoy to Liberia, to be Ambassador to South Africa. Reagan is also counting on the European Community to implement milder measures. This week the twelve E.C. foreign ministers are scheduled to adopt a package of restrictions that would ban imports of South African coal, steel, iron ore and gold coins...
...Reed, Elizabeth Rudulph, Alain L. Sanders, Zona Sparks, William Tynan, Susanne Washburn (Senior Staff); Wilmer Ames Jr., David Bjerklie, Kathleen Brady, Robert I. Burger, Howard G. Chua- Eoan, Sally B. Donnelly, Andrea Dorfman, Helen Sen Doyle, David Ellis, Kathryn Jackson Fallon, Mary McC. Fernandez, Cassie T. Furgurson, John Edward Gallagher, Nancy R. Gibbs, Lois Gilman, Edward M. Gomez, Christine Gorman, Rodman Griffin, Janice M. Horowitz, Jeanette Isaac, Carol A. Johmann, Sinting Lai, JoAnn Lum, Katherine Mihok, Emily Mitchell, Lawrence Mondi, Christine Morgan, Adrianne Jucius Navon, Jeannie Park, Barry Rehfeld, Andrea Sachs, David E. Thigpen, Sidney Urquhart, Jane Van Tassel, Leslie...