Word: levi
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...Carter camp insists that the selection is based on merit. An aide claims that when Carter requested recommendations, people told him, "You've got the best man in the country right down there in Atlanta"−meaning Bell. Outgoing Attorney General Edward Levi praises Bell as a "very distinguished appointment." Another top official in the Justice Department describes Bell as an above-average appeals-court judge. He also thinks that Bell may turn out to be an above-average Attorney General...
When University of Chicago President Edward Levi became U.S. Attorney General two years ago, he found the Justice Department battered and demoralized by the storms of Watergate. Now, as he prepares to return to Chicago, he can look back over some significant changes. In an interview with TIME Correspondent Don Sider, he assesses some of those changes...
...official told TIME: "He knows all about the movement of money to Congressmen. He handled some of the cash himself. There's a myriad of potential law violations in what he's talking about." Because of the sensitivity of Kim's information, Attorney General Edward Levi ordered the FBI to withhold information about his disclosures. Said a high Justice Department official: "It's a real sticky mess...
...Western President Muammar Gaddafi flew into a rage about a mild satire of himself printed by the Turin daily La Stampa. He threatened to have Fiat, the Italian megacompany that owns La Stampa, put on the Arab boycott list unless it fired the paper's Jewish editor, Arrigo Levi. Fiat Chairman Giovanni Agnelli stood by Levi, and the matter was forgotten. Time and oil money, however, can change the political-economic balance of power, and last week Levi had a new story to print. Agnelli announced that he is taking on a new partner-of all people, Gaddafi...
...whom Gaddafi finances-could have some power levers to pull. One example: Libya's archrival Egypt makes 12,000 Nasr autos a year under Fiat license; Gaddafi's Fiat connection gives him a new stick to shake at his neighbors to the east. And what about Editor Levi? Agnelli, who is still Fiat's-and Levi's-boss, said last week that he "would behave exactly the same way" if Levi and Gaddafi squared off again. But Gaddafi has a long memory-and 10% of Fiat...