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Feeling he had been misused, Baker bounced back fast. He made a dramatic entry into the race for Senate minority leader in 1977 and beat out the favored Senator Robert Griffin of Michigan. He proved surprisingly effective in a generally thankless job, welding the independent-minded Republican Senate barons into a cohesive opposition without making enemies. Says Nevada's G.O.P. Senator Paul Laxalt, Ronald Reagan's campaign chairman: "Nobody has a bad word to say about Howard...
...physicians in the nation) omits many of the best, bruised egos abound. Ignored doctors have sent Pekkanen their multipage résumés, and the distraught wife of one physician forwarded even more convincing evidence of her husband's merit: a photograph of him with Merv Griffin...
...Management and Budget two years ago and finally ended in his indictment last May, had aroused suspicions that the Carters had illegally diverted family funds, including money borrowed from Lance's bank, to Jimmy's campaign treasury. The charges became so persistent that then Attorney General Griffin Bell reluctantly announced he would appoint a Watergate-style investigator. Last March he handed that touchy job to Curran, a cautious, scrupulously methodical former U.S. Attorney from New York, who also happened to be a Republican...
Some accounts say Helms threatened to spill every dark secret he could dredge up if he were brought to trial; Powers ignores this scenario. In any case, in 1977 Helms' lawyers reached a deal with Attorney General Griffin Bell that allowed him (in exchange for a plea of nolo contendre) to escape with a suspended two-year jail term, a $2,000 fine paid by sympathetic colleagues, and his federal pension intact...
...according to Rizzo, 13 officers have been killed in the line of duty since 1971. The Justice Department in the past five years has investigated 210 complaints of police brutality in Philadelphia. Last year a delegation of the city's black leaders pleaded with then Attorney General Griffin Bell to take stronger action. On his orders, the department's Civil Rights Division opened an investigation that continued for eight months, culminating in last week's suit...