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Surgeon General C. Everett Koop is an outspoken enemy of tobacco consumption, advocating a "smoke-free society by the year 2000" as a major U.S. health goal. It was no surprise, then, that Koop planned to testify before a House subcommittee last week in support of legislation that would ban all advertising for tobacco products. But the day before he was to appear, the Washington Post reported that Donald Regan, the President's chief of staff, had barred Koop from testifying. The White House defended the action by saying that his presence on a panel that was to include such...
...journalists to distance themselves from the ranks of the TelePrompTered hairdos--the "twinkies," as Linda Ellerbee calls them. Ellerbee, a Texan, began her career in Houston, where her irreverent approach to office routine was not appreciated. The CBS station in New York City was delighted to have a witty, outspoken reporter on its staff, and sent her out to cover general-assignment and humaninterest stories. Eventually, she was given the chance to operate heavier machinery at NBC. She wrote for and co-anchored Weekend and NBC News Overnight, feature- journalism shows that were mostly seen in off-peak viewing hours...
...been outspoken about affirmative action, citing the need to maintain current federal laws mandating that employers meet goals in hiring minorities and women. In an opinion piece printed in the Washington Post earlier this year, Bok attacked efforts by the Justice Department to dismantle current affirmative action laws...
Carrington's style of leadership differs markedly from his controversial and outspoken predecessor at NATO, Joseph Luns of the Netherlands. The alliance is "much less divisive now," according to Lecturer in Public Policy Richard N. Haass. "Many of the big, kind of doctrinal debates, about first use [of nuclear weapons] and pure defense [as opposed to 'forward' defense] have considerably toned down," agrees Stanley H. Hoffman, Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France...
...council's most outspoken liberalmembers, Lakhdhir says, "The council should bemore active. We have to speak out and speak outwell." Lakhdhir, a social studies concentrator whois going to China next year to teach English,resigned from the council in the middle of thissemester...