Word: liaison
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...NEXT few weeks, China and the United States will officially open liaison offices in each other's capitals. It may be useful to examine some of the preconceptions which could undermine mutual understanding between these two countries in the coming years...
...Watergate case that cleared all White House staffers. A lawyer who has hardly practiced privately, clean-cut Dean worked as minority counsel to the House Judiciary Committee. He gained such a reputation as a Nixon loyalist that in 1969 he was hired by the Justice Department as its legislative liaison man. Highly recommended by almost every Administration official with whom he came into contact, Dean caught the eye of image-oriented people at the White House, and in 1970 moved over there to succeed John Ehrlichman as counsel. He has outlined the legal basis for Nixon's decisions...
...member of the Southern California group-which includes Haldeman, Magruder, Chapin and Ziegler-Strachan (pronounced Strawn) worked for Nixon's Manhattan law firm, then followed the President and Mitchell to Washington in 1970. Known around the White House as "one of Haldeman's guys," he served as liaison between Haldeman's office and C.R.P. during 1972, and was in constant touch with Mitchell and Magruder. He left the White House last December and is now general counsel to the U.S. Information Agency...
Agnew's duties were trimmed last January, when Nixon shifted the supervision of the Office of Intergovernmental Relations, which handles White House liaison with Governors and mayors, from Agnew to Ehrlichman's Domestic Policy Council. The shift was a mixed blessing, because the Vice President felt that Nixon had misled those elected officials into thinking that they were going to get more federal funds from his revenue-sharing programs than now seems likely−and Agnew has no desire to take the heat for this. Explains an Agnew spokesman: "It could be awkward for the Vice President...
...loves, fears and hates. Until we learn that they are ghosts, it is assumed that they are merely mad-especially Elsa. She is sure that a shoe salesman in a Madison Avenue shop is really an SS man named Kiel, long defunct, with whom she had a brief liaison during the war at a British intelligence installation. Elsa's shadow falls the wrong way-always a bad sign-and she practices the kind of unpredictable tyranny that only a weak, formerly beautiful, unbalanced woman can. Elsa's husband Paul has an inner voice that keeps crying. "Help...