Word: lawyer
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...seemed almost the perfect job for the savvy Washington lawyer. Carter has made nuclear arms reduction one of the top goals of his Administration, and Warnke is certainly a leading champion of that cause. But for a number of congressional hawks, the nomination was anything but ideal. They fear that Warnke is too soft to deal with the Soviets. Democratic Senator Henry Jackson, for example, said he was concerned "about what I have seen and heard of Mr. Warnke's position," while Democratic Senator Sam Nunn complained that Warnke has opposed many of those U.S. weapons systems (e.g., MIRVed...
...ways to nudge the confrontation states back to the conference table at Geneva. Next month Vance goes to Moscow for talks on arms limitation. After that, he hinted, will come a variety of other meetings-possibly including direct negotiations with Cuba. Later this month the President will send Washington Lawyer (and former Defense Secretary) Clark Clifford to Cyprus, to explore the possibilities for a settlement between Greek and Turkish Cypriots...
Died. David E. Finley, 86, the soft-spoken South Carolina lawyer who was the planner and first director (1938-1956) of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.; at his home in Georgetown. The idea, the money-and the first great collection for the gallery-came from Steel Magnate Andrew W. Mellon, who as Secretary of the Treasury in 1927 and later as Ambassador to Great Britain had taken on Finley as his most trusted associate. The enormous marble museum opened in 1941, and Finley persuaded other great collectors, notably Samuel Kress, Lessing Rosenwald and Peter and Joseph Widener...
This, in fact, seemed to have been the case in many white households. Admitted Beti Gunter, the wife of a lawyer in Little Rock, Ark.: "Something inside me tried to say that slavery wasn't that bad, but now I know that it really was a lot worse." Said Barbara Ash, a vice president of Hart, Schaffner & Marx in Chicago: "I just hurt for them. Guilt is not a good word to describe my feelings?I felt agony." Said Lydia Levin, a law student at the University of California at Los Angeles: "I don't think I ever sat down...
Speakers at the conference will include Thomas Tureen, the lawyer for the Passamoquoddy/Penobscot tribes in their successful lawsuit against the state of Maine, and Dr. Helen Redbird Selam, a professor at the Monmouth School of Education in Oregon and a member of the Cherokee tribe...