Word: nelson
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...Welfare and has done magazine writing. But none of this makes her a consumer specialist. In fact, her best-known specialty is throwing chic dinners at her $250,000 Chevy Chase, Md., home, often attended by such close friends as Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Vice President Nelson Rockefeller (who once lent her husband more than $180,000 to help purchase a small paper in California). Could these two luminaries have helped her get the job? No, says Joan Braden, who insists that she never talked to Kissinger or Rockefeller about...
...been sympathetic to Chile's Liberal clerics, got involved in the developing church-state conflict almost by accident. Two priests - one an American-born Chilean, Father Gerald Wheelan, 48, and the other a native Chilean, Monsignor Rafael Maroto - had given sanctuary to Martin Hernandez and Nelson Gutierez, members of a small remnant of the Movement of the Revolutionary Left (MIR). Gutierez, wounded in a Shootout with the secret police, was brought to a convent in Santiago. Monsignor Maroto summoned Dr. Cassidy, who drained abscessed bullet wounds in Gutierez's leg. Another priest, Fernando Salas, later smuggled Gutierez...
...says that Governor Nelson Rockefeller and Mayors John Lindsay and Abraham Beame should be indicted: "They've misrepresented securities they were selling, fraudulently misrepresented the economic condition of the city, they've cooked the books. They've done all kinds of things for which people get prosecuted--for which the directors of the Franklin National Bank are being prosecuted." In short, he says, the city government is a "corrupt, criminal operation...
...only thing between Nelson Rockefeller and the presidency is a banana peel...
Nadjari, 51, had compiled a reasonably good record. He became known as a superb prosecutor during 20 years in New York City and nearby Suffolk County before then-Governor Nelson Rockefeller named him special prosecutor in 1972. The post was created in the malodorous wake of the Knapp Commission hearings on official corruption in the Big Apple, and Nadjari was given extraordinary powers. A Democrat-turned-Republican, Superprosecutor Nadjari went on to indict 296 persons on various charges of corruption. He won guilty verdicts against one district attorney (later reversed) and a number of lesser government officials. No fewer than...