Word: marstons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...outrage from friends of Israel, for whom "self-determination" is a synonym for an independent Palestinian state. They denounced it as capitulation to oil blackmail. Rita Hauser, a prominent New York Republican, quit her post as top Jewish adviser in Connally's campaign. Philadelphia Republican Mayoral Candidate David Marston publicly snubbed the Texan by refusing to be photographed with...
...Justice faced. He took over the investigation of FBI break-ins when five other lawyers quit in a dispute with Bell. It was Civiletti who journeyed to South Korea to negotiate for permission to question Washington influence-peddler Tong-sun Park. And when Bell decided to remove David W. Marston, the Republican U.S. Attorney in Philadelphia who was investigating a Democratic Congressman, Civiletti reassured Marston's staff that their pursuit of political corruption would continue...
...James Marston, 26, a lanky, soft-spoken Texas native who graduated from New York University Law School, is the "fuzzy-cheeked" nemesis assigned by the attorney general's office to South Padre Island. Says he: "The people who come here and buy land or condominium units don't really know what the apparent dangers are from erosion or hurricanes. Some developers are farsighted enough to protect both the general public and their buyers, but others seem only concerned with making a fast buck and getting...
...Marston walks along the beach, he points out a sea wall, once well back from the water, now torn apart by the waves. His office tries to work out accommodations with builders who have encroached on the beach or who find the receding beach threatening their structures. "We're not into tearing down expensive buildings," says Marston. "We try to negotiate equitable arrangements. In two instances where we felt developers were building too close to the sea and encroaching on public beach, we had them buy adjoining lots and donate them for public use, rather than forcing them...
...have sometimes suggested a man so bent on capturing friends that language became too casual. In his eagerness to cast himself in the best light, he occasionally appears to bend the facts to fit the moment. His skein of contradictory statements about the reasons for firing U.S. Attorney David Marston, who was probing political corruption in Pennsylvania, was most likely one of those convenient misunderstandings, probably a tiny incident in Carter's mind to get him over a small embarrassment...