Word: leone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...turned out, Bell's problems were far from over. Trying to resist any comparison with Watergate, Bell made Curran a "special counsel," not a "special prosecutor," the title carried by Archibald Cox and Leon Jaworski when they led the investigations that helped to bring about Richard Nixon's downfall. There was one important difference: unlike the special prosecutors, Curran would not have the power to charge anyone on his own. He would first have to get the approval of Assistant Attorney General Philip Heymann...
...used to be known as Robert E. Lee, which had a certain ring, but now he is called Roberto E. Leon, which has certain advantages−or so it seemed for a while. A retired Navy captain, Leon, 56, works as an engineer for Montgomery County, Md., outside Washington. When Lee took the Hispanic name Leon, he asked the county to grant him preferential status under its affirmative-action program. Leon noted that he had a Spanish grandfather and claimed that he had been considering the switch for years, but he also confessed: "What's wrong with being...
...programs. Last week the EEOC frostily in formed Montgomery County that it would be "an abuse of federal law and regulations" to accept such a name change as a basis for conferring minority status. The county promptly launched an investigation into its whole affirmative-action program, and Roberto E. Leon is still being treated by his employers as though he were named Robert...
...Monday night's meeting, South House residents also elected Francis H. Strauss III '81 to fill the assembly seat of Angel R. Leon '80, who resigned last week in protest of the assembly's initial rejection of the referendum on political parties...
...South House residents were eligible to come to the committee meeting and vote for the delegate to replace Leon, but less than 40 students came, committee members said yesterday...