Word: lawyer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...introduction of Newcomer Strauss into the Middle East summitry shook the State Department to its foundations. That Carter would reach around Vance and Brzezinski and pick the glad-handing Texan, a lawyer, politician and trade negotiator relatively inexperienced in diplomatic affairs, stunned the department professionals. The move further diminished Vance's standing, removing a principal foreign policy area from his direction. It not only disillusioned the whole State Department but also aggravated the long-term power struggle between State and the National Security Council. Brzezinski saw Strauss's appointment as both a weakening of Vance's authority...
...objective. Two owners of Studio 54, Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager, had been charged with tax evasion, obstruction of justice and conspiracy in June. The charges followed a raid on the disco in December 1978 in which Schrager had been arrested for possession of cocaine. Rubell's chief lawyer, Roy M. Cohn, onetime aide to Senator Joseph McCarthy, said last week that in preparing for the trial Rubell told him that the discotheque's many famous visitors included Jordan and Powell...
...invariably begins with a race among some unscrupulous lawyers to sign up the next of kin. Soliciting clients, or "ambulance chasing," can cost a lawyer his license. But for some the temptation of a multimillion-dollar air crash is too much...
Insurers for the airlines are understandably eager to head off the lawyers by getting to the next of kin first and offering them a quick settlement. A week after the Flight 191 crash, the insurer for American Airlines sent a three-page letter to the relatives of all the passengers. Extending his "sincere condolences" and detailing the insurers' plans to pay funeral expenses. Robert Alpert, vice president of the United States Aviation Underwriters, offered to settle any damage claims. Then came some pointed advice. "It is also our hope," wrote Alpert, "that you ultimately retain as much...
DIED. John Diefenbaker, 83, "Mr. Conservative," the flamboyant prairie lawyer who was Canada's Prime Minister from 1957 to 1963 and one of its most outspoken Members of Parliament for almost four decades; in Ottawa. Reared in the northlands of Saskatchewan, Diefenbaker won fame as a crack trial lawyer, before winning a long sought seat in the House of Commons in 1940. As Prime Minister he urged increased independence from the U.S., to be accomplished largely through the development of Canada's natural resources and the Arctic north. Though an unwavering antiCommunist, he detested McCarthyism and promoted trade...