Word: leon
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...Union Leader. "I am clean, clean, clean," insisted Bush. In a rare display of anger, he asked, "What the hell are they raising that for now?" He claims he reported the contribution in compliance with the laws then on the books. When he was named CIA director, Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski investigated the transaction and cleared him of any wrongdoing...
Actually, some of the Abscam victims might prefer to be judged by their colleagues in Congress rather than by criminal trial juries. Declares Leon Jaworski, who has been on both sides of such interbranch conflicts, as special Watergate prosecutor and special counsel to a House committee probing the Korea bribery scandal: "Congress has never done a very good job of investigating itself. The House committee should defer to a speedy and thorough investigation by the Justice Department...
...church is a testimony to the work of its pastor, Rev. Leon Sullivan, and symbolic of the hope and faith of the people of North Philadelphia. Both Sullivan and the church have created what could only be called an ecumenical empire supported by corporate funds and dedicated to providing jobs and better housing for the people of North Philadelphia. The list of the church-sponsored organizations range from the Zion Investment Associates that built a million dollar apartment complex known as Zion Gardens, a shopping center known as Progress Plaza, and an industrial complex known as Progress Industrial Park...
Predictably, the Harvard Corporation looks very highly on Leon Sullivan. Stevens says "he is one of the few people that has resorted to direct action in response to his rhetoric" on the issues of apartheid and corporate involvement in South Africa. He is "very much one who works within the system," Stevens says, adding "He'll get his foot in the door and once he's done that he'll stick his leg in too." Sullivan's efforts show he is an activist that works with the tools the economic system gives him. His social programs in North Philadelphia, OICs...
...capturing Labor at the grass roots. The program of the group, dubbed "Red Moles" by London's Daily Mirror, also includes fomenting an economic and political crisis in Britain that would result in the apocalyptic collapse of capitalism. One key tactic advocated is "entryism," a neologism coined by Leon Trotsky in 1934 to describe the infiltration of legal political organizations for subversive purposes. Some defectors from Militant accuse it of crudely totalitarian goals. Said one: "There would be less freedom than there is under capitalism. There would be more dissidents in prison than there are in the Soviet Union...