Word: griffin
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Business Lobbying. Griffin Bell has had three chances to observe the snail's-pace process: as a federal appeals judge, a highly paid corporate attorney and as Jimmy Carter's Attorney General. In speeches and in testimony last week to a Senate subcommittee, he advanced a bold idea: sending the biggest cases to Congress "as legislative matters" rather than taking them to court. "My idea," he said, "would be to certify to Congress that the case is beyond the capacity of the courts to handle." In an earlier speech before the American Bar Association, he described what sounds...
...rule on vacating the convictions. Since the major prosecution witnesses have frequently changed their stories, any such order would probably mean speedy release for the prisoners, but Chavis says he has little hope of that. Nor is he confident about an FBI investigation ordered by Attorney General Griffin Bell. The best hope for the Wilmington Ten, he said, lies in marshaling public pressure on the President to urge a North Carolina pardon for them. "We are political prisoners," he says, "and in political-prisoner situations, the public decides the case, not the courts...
...reported 20% of any profits. Helping Frost land the contract was Herbert Klein, Nixon's longtime press confidant, who felt that Frost was not the kind of U.S. journalist who is "always trying to put in his own opinions." Klein's other recommendation: U.S. TV's talkative Merv Griffin...
...efforts are already under way to obtain bookings for Administration officials-as yet unannounced-to explain the program, not only on the familiar interview shows such as Face the Nation, Meet the Press and Issues and Answers, but on the popular TV talk shows emceed by Johnny Carson, Merv Griffin and Dinah Shore...
...raised in Texas, Castillo served in the Peace Corps, then returned to Texas to lead a desegregation fight in Houston. He was elected Houston controller in 1971 and was twice reelected. Although he has yet to be confirmed by the Senate, Castillo has already worked with Attorney General Griffin Bell on the new program...