Word: lobbyist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...environmental groups are wary of a clause in the amendment permitting land use for "residential and other community purposes." The plateau that the Indians want is, according to Sierra Club Lobbyist Jeffrey Ingram, "a fantastic piece of real estate." He envisions vacation condominiums on the reservation. William Byler of the Association on American Indian Affairs scoffs at this. He points out that tribal leaders have insisted they will allow no unsightly development and that the bill forbids any but "traditional use." Says he: "To suggest that the tribe will hand it over to developers is a slanderous attack...
...agency, he went to work for Robert R. Mullen & Co., a Washington public relations firm that once served as a CIA cover in addition to its regular commercial jobs. Working with Mullen President Robert Bennett, Hunt conducted an investigation of Senator Edward Kennedy's accident at Chappaquiddick, persuaded Lobbyist Dita Beard to issue a statement intended to clear the Nixon Administration of any impropriety in its dealing with ITT, and estimated the cost of a wiretap of Author Clifford Irving on behalf of Howard Hughes. CIA officials denied any involvement in these activities...
Labor leaders charge that some Ex-Im loans have gone to foreign companies that export goods to the U.S., taking sales and jobs from domestic firms. AFL-CIO Lobbyist Ray Denison says Ex-Im has financed a Mexican factory that makes automobile springs that are shipped to the U.S. Recently, Ex-Im lent $75 million to the Bank of Tokyo to finance purchase by Japanese firms of 260,000 bales of U.S. cotton. Critics fear that that loan will worsen American inflation by raising the price of domestic cotton...
ACORN is not a group of amateurs. Among people acquainted with the field, it is regarded as perhaps the best community organizing group in the country. ACORN played it smart--it sent a lobbyist, William L. Kitchen, to Cambridge for a few weeks to put on the pressure...
...quit, we were able to negotiate an honorable end to the war at the conference table, which would not have been possible had they not served with distinction and courage to the end."Many Vietvets, however, are now concerned about goals closer to home. A veterans' lobbyist later complained that Nixon "didn't once mention things that the country should be doing for the Viet Nam veterans." Among their worthy goals: boosting education benefits, assisting the many vets still struggling with psychological readjustment, and helping free thousands from drug addiction...