Word: maryland
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...Georgia's own Democratic Senator Sam Nunn echoes the message. The world has moved, and Nunn believes the U.S. lacks "a SALT philosophy" in a tune when events seem to be slipping out of our grasp. Republican Senator Charles McC. Mathias Jr. sat on one of his Maryland hillsides as long ago as April and heard Pakistan's brilliant ambassador, Sahabzada Yaqub-Khan, prophesy chaos in Iran. The ambassador has gone to Moscow, after telling his friends that his government believes the Soviets to be the dominant world force now because the U.S. cannot be counted...
...County, although the largest county in Maryland, seemed more like a small town on the first day of the Johnson trial, which was slated for jury selection...
...mere mention of his name, Terrance Johnson, is enough to ignite an already explosive situation. You see, Johnson is black, the two slain policemen were white, and any Maryland resident will tell you that the most notorious features of P.G. County are its ultra-tense race relations and its controversial police force...
Arthur A. Marshall Jr., Maryland attorney general, has decided to prosecute this case himself--for the first time in three years. Critics and Johnson supporters point out that Marshall did not try to get an indictment against the white policemen who shot unarmed black suspects last year. Marshall says, "I didn't go before the grand jury to seek an indictment in the Johnson case, either. I have always made it a policy to prosecute shootings involving the police, whether they are victims or defendants," once charges are brought...
...number one priority is the perceptions of students," James P. Gleason, former Montgomery County, Maryland county executive, said yesterday. Gleason, who said he is disillusioned after 25 years of political life, will write a novel about the realities of politics during his fellowship...