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...Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, 53, will begin organizing materials for his memoirs at his rented house in Georgetown at least until next summer.He has told friends that he has no plans to return to academic life and, for the moment at least, has no interest in staying in the diplomatic world as a special negotiator in the Middle East, as was urged last week by several Senators...
...what you're really saying, Archie," I replied flatly, "is that I should go back to Georgetown...
...Informant. Almost no one in Washington believed that Jerry Ford would ever pocket campaign funds. Yet neither would anyone accuse the highly respected Ruff, a Democrat, of acting rashly or for partisan purposes. A polio-paralyzed associate law professor at Georgetown University, Ruff, 37, belonged to the staff that dug into illegal corporate political contributions during Watergate and brought Richard Nixon's top aides to trial. He also successfully prosecuted United Mine Workers President W.A. (Tony) Boyle for illegal campaign contributions...
...major issue in the campaign. Each is offering his record of probity as an index to his trustworthiness. Both are devoted family men and each has a deep religious faith. Carter is a born-again evangelical; Ford is an Episcopalian who participates in weekly White House prayer meetings. Says Georgetown University's Political Scientist Jeane Kirkpatrick: "They come from modest origins, having achieved personal success with hard work. Neither has the style of an urban sophisticate like a Kennedy or Roosevelt. Both have high levels of self-control...
...classes of about 25 inmates meet in spartan gray-walled prison classrooms for 90 minutes two nights a week for four months; graduates get certificates. Courses are taught by two-member teams of second-and third-year law students, most of them from Georgetown, who earn academic credit for their work. The young instructors-most have never been inside a prison before-also gain insight about people who really need legal help. Says Jerry Kristal, a third-year student who taught last semester: "At first we had stereotypes of what prisoners were. I learned prisoners are human...