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...Served in the Army from 1964 to 1966. Afterward, worked as a Republican legislative aide in the Senate and eventually became head of the U.S. Office for Civil Rights, where he was in charge of enforcing equal education laws under President Richard Nixon. After Panetta vigorously worked to desegregate Southern schools, to the chagrin of Nixon administration officials such as Vice President Spiro Agnew, he was forced to resign from the post...
...After his stint under Nixon, moved to New York City to take a job as executive assistant to New York Mayor John Lindsay, where he served as a liaison to the state and federal governments. After working for Lindsay for a year, Panetta switched to the Democratic Party and returned to California to practice...
...Road to Mumbai's Tragedy From the beginning of the recent Mumbai massacre, Indians in India and abroad never doubted Pakistan's hand in the ghastly attacks [Dec. 15]. President Richard Nixon's famous "tilt" toward Pakistan, decades of American support for Pakistan's military dictators and America's turning a blind eye to Pakistan's involvement in a long series of terrorist activities against India have all borne their fruit in the past decade in the form of worldwide Islamic terrorism. These dreadful attacks will continue unless international pressure is brought to bear on Pakistan's elected government...
From the beginning of the recent Mumbai massacre, Indians in India and abroad never doubted Pakistan's hand in the ghastly attacks [Dec. 15]. President Nixon's famous "tilt" toward Pakistan, decades of U.S. support for Pakistan's military dictators and America's turning a blind eye to Pakistan's involvement in a series of terrorist activities against India have borne their fruit in the past decade. These dreadful attacks will continue unless international pressure is brought to bear on Pakistan's elected government to bring its military under control. Chuncha Mel Ramakrishna, CHERRY HILL...
...went down more like ice cream than spinach?" The ensuing creation - in which kids learned everything from empathy to arithmetic under the tutelage of colorful creatures like an 8-ft.-tall canary and a misanthropic garbage-can dweller - was greeted with acclaim by parents, teachers and even President Richard Nixon. Four decades later, it's a cultural touchstone that remains required viewing for millions of youngsters in 120 countries...