Word: kent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...retired member of the Ohio National Guard, the Attorney General-designate stirred his first controversy by hinting that he might stop the review of the Kent State shootings that had been ordered by Richardson. Saxbe has outspoken views on capital punishment (for) and gun-control legislation (against). All in all, Saxbe's tenure at the Justice Department did not loom as a quiet one. That prospect seemed to bother the frustrated legislator not at all. "You sit around the Senate for years and think of what you could do; you shoot your mouth off," says Saxbe. "Then they hand...
Still in Shape. Ford also was accused by former Washington Lobbyist Robert N. Winter-Berger, in his book The Washington Payoff, of being involved in some small stock deals having to do with his membership on the board of the Old Kent Bank and Trust Co. of Grand Rapids. Winter-Berger also claims that Ford did unspecified favors for an unnamed client hi return for $50,000 donated to Republican candidates- but not Ford-in 1970. The minority leader has denied both accusations, and almost no one takes them seriously...
...Costa Mesa, which has six touring bands, had to put up a tent for the overflow crowds, then an auditorium that holds 2,000. The Tony and Susan Alamo Christian Foundation near Saugus has bought a 160-acre farm, a gas station, a thrift shop and a motel. Kent Philpott s ministry north of San Francisco runs a construction business and several farms, plus rehabilitation centers, a counseling center and a bookstore...
Peter Davies' book is primarily a concise and easily followed compilation of the essential facts upon which Guardsmen might possibly be prosecuted. It is also an account of the agonizing struggle by parents of the Kent State victims, various church groups and Davies himself to convince an unresponsive Nixon Administration that a federal grand jury should examine the matter thoroughly. With the jury's power to issue subpoenas and grant immunity, Davies argues, the still obscure truth of precisely why the Guardsmen fired their guns could be secured. Davies, 42, is a New York City insurance broker...
...lives were endangered by an onrushing mob of students, that they were encircled and had run out of tear gas, and that they had come under fire from an unknown sniper. Davies, along with the President's Scranton commission, the FBI and every journalist who has written a Kent State book, presents contrary evidence on all these points. At the time that the Guardsmen suddenly wheeled and fired from a vantage point atop a hill, they had already dispersed the crowd and had a clear exit route back to their assembly point. Even at the time of firing...