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Twenty-one newly elected mayors last week took part in a biennial program at the Kennedy School designed to ease their transitions into the helms of America's cities.
As might be expected, Kennedy's case-by-case approach stirs neither great enthusiasm nor dead-end opposition in the Senate. Jesse Helms, North Carolina's conservative curmudgeon, once growled, "No way, Jose," at the prospect of Kennedy's nomination. But last week he allowed that Kennedy might make a...
Kennedy's likely confirmation by the Senate to fill the seat left vacant by Justice Lewis F. Powell is thus no small consolation to those who were troubled by the prospect of a Justice Bork and unsure what to make of a Justice Ginsburg. At the very least, liberals can...
President Reagan also met with Helms to reassure him about the nomination. Reagan also chatted amiably with Judiciary Committee Chairman Joseph R. Biden Jr., D-Del., who led the successful fight to defeat the first nominee for the court vacancy, Robert H. Bork. Reagan's second nominee, appellate judge Douglas...
KWITNY presents Nugan Hand as perhaps the most successful of the ventures disguised as private businesses through which the CIA pursues its ends beyond the scrutiny of the public, press or Senate. Brief autobiographies of players in Nugan Hand and other concerns show a flow of operatives between intelligence entitities...