Word: nixon
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Though Jones likes to call himself a "county-seat" lawyer, he spent part of his career in New York (as a young lawyer working for Richard Nixon) and another part in Washington as a congressional aide. His thinking doesn't stop at the county line. Prosecutors, led by Special Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph Hartzler, plan to lay the crime squarely at the feet of Nichols and McVeigh, two Army buddies immersed in the furies and paranoia of the extreme right wing. Jones plans to go global, arguing to the jury that his client is just a pawn in a conspiracy...
OLIVER STONE was told that his film Nixon had won no Oscars by the Zapatistas in Reality, Mexico. Stone had been invited there by Subcomandante MARCOS, the Indian rebel group's white middle-class leader, who complimented Stone on his war films and Natural Born Killers, which Marcos had seen even though he has been in the jungle since 1994. "I thought Oscar week was a good time to do something else," says Stone, who found the rebel leader to be a "poet, philosopher and a very romantic figure." No movies are planned about him, however. In fact, Stone...
...genesis of the curious name. "Stephanopoulos was too hard to pronounce," he said, glancing at the eponymous presidential adviser. Kennedy in his remarks called his staff "Washington specialists," mystifying the crowd, who wondered whether he employed podiatrists or editors. You could tell you weren't in L.A. when former Nixon aide Leonard Garment picked the movie Nixon to win every category but one, and Clinton pal and lawyer Vernon Jordan said he wasn't paying attention to any event pushing a pig for a prize. National Endowment for the Arts chairwoman Jane Alexander headed upstairs to the Cafritzes' bedroom...
...Edmund Muskie died from a heart attack early Tuesday at Georgetown University Hospital. Muskie suffered the attack a few days after undergoing surgery for a clogged artery in his leg. He came to national prominence as Democratic presidential nominee Hubert Humphrey's running mate in 1968. They lost to Nixon and Spiro Agnew. Muskie was the odds-on favorite to win the Democratic presidential nomination in 1972, but he lost to Senator George McGovern of South Dakota. His angry and emotional breakdown in New Hampshire, railing against a story critical of his wife, may have cost him the nomination...
...goal of comprehensive engagement, the approach pursued by all U.S. Presidents since Richard Nixon, is to bring China into the world community through broadly based dialogue and diplomacy; an example is the Pentagon's policy of expanding contacts with the Chinese military through naval visits and official exchanges. Admiral R.J. Zlatoper, the commander in chief of the U.S. Pacific fleet, has made a priority of better military-to-military relations. "I see myself as a missionary, not just a war fighter," he says. "I sense on the Chinese side an equal interest in being engaged with...