Word: mardian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...still seems utterly improbable. But one thing is certain: the indictments naming six defendants and seven coconspirators, including Fathers Philip and Daniel Berrigan, were backed by a man who is convinced that he has a solid case. The cool tactician behind the move was Assistant Attorney General Robert Charles Mardian, 47, an outspoken conservative Republican who heads the Justice Department's Internal Security Division. Mardian is going all out for a guilty verdict...
...little more than two months on the job, Mardian's presence has rejuvenated the long moribund division that faded from public view after its heyday hunting Communists during the McCarthy era. With an expanded staff of 49 lawyers, Mardian will prosecute draft resisters and continue to investigate groups ranging from the Weathermen to the Jewish Defense League. According to his close friend, Deputy Attorney General Richard Kleindienst, Mardian is "a prodigious worker, brilliant lawyer and great believer in America. He knows what freedom...
...major goal of the President's preventive leadership was to bolster the persuasion potential of the state committees, which have been carefully nurtured by key White House aides, including Robert Mardian, a conservative who is staff director of Nixon's Cabinet Committee on Education. Composed of about 20 members each, the committees have no statutory power. But the members are mainly professionals, business leaders and educators of both races who carry influence in their states on economic and school issues. They have stuck their necks out to take on the job of trying to persuade local communities...
...districts had been warned repeatedly by a surprisingly tough team of negotiators, headed by Robert Mardian, executive director of President Nixon's Cabinet Committee on Education (TIME, July 6). Named last week was the State of Mississippi, where the Government charged that state officials were trying to maintain the dual systems imposed by the state Constitution in defiance of the federal Constitution. Other suits were directed at 14 districts in Florida, nine in Arkansas and ten in South Carolina. The Administration insists that when schools open in September, 97% of all black pupils in the South will be enrolled...
...Mardian, along with Assistant Attorney General Jerris Leonard and HEW Civil Rights Chief J. Stanley Pottinger...