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Never missing an opportunity to play down his own accomplishments, Verba claims he inadvertently stumbled into the liaison role which consumed a tremendous amount of time in February and March. "I became one of the mediators be cause in my usual stupid way I shot my mouth off in a Faculty Council meeting, saying the Council was too big to deal directly with the nitty-gritty of the issues," Verba says. "Never make suggestions of that sort because they'll stick you with it. That's how I got involved in that...
...bull dykes" and describing a legislative hearing on the subject as filled with "hard Jewish and arguably female faces." A former Congressman, Schmitz and his wife of 28 years, Mary, have seven children. He is apparently also the father of two more, as a consequence of an extramarital liaison that came to light last week after welfare officials petitioned a court for protective custody of a 13-month-old boy. They charged the parents-Carla Verne Stuckle, 43, a longtime worker for conservative Republican causes and one "John Schmitz," who "lives out of the home"-with neglecting or deliberately abusing...
...agency in 1955. Shortley is a longtime friend of Edward V. Hickey, director of special support services for the White House and a casual acquaintance of White House Counsellor Edwin Meese. Shortley's wife Maiselle works at the White House as an aide to Morton Blackwell, a liaison with conservative groups. Anthony Dolan, a Reagan speechwriter, is Shortley's brother-in-law; so is John T. ("Terry") Dolan, director of the National Conservative Political Action Committee, which raised more than $7 million for conservative candidates in the 1980 campaign. Shortley insists that no one at the White House...
Schmidt denies that Harvard has significantly stepped up its state lobbying and liaison work, noting that within the office of government and community relations an associate vice president to deal with the state has been active since Bok created the position when he took office 11 years ago. Five have held the office. State relations has never been a full-time position by itself. Schmidt's office spends much of its working day dealing with Cambridge and community affairs...
Bush, who served as head of the U.S.'s liaison office in China in 1974-75 and is the highest-ranking member of the Administration yet to visit China, arrived in Peking bearing a reassuring personal letter from Reagan. Though the Chinese received Bush with personal expressions of friendship, neither his entreaties nor Reagan's letter changed any minds in Peking. Deng underscored the seriousness of the Taiwan issue by asserting that he hoped Bush's visit would "dispel the shadows and dark clouds that hang over our relations...