Word: robert
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...Claiborne Pell, chairman of a Senate education subcommittee, to question whether she has the "management and organization" skills to administer the new department, which will have 17,000 employees and a budget of $14.2 billion. Her admirers do not share Pell's concern. Said Occidental Executive Vice President Robert Bovinette: "She puts things eloquently, and she has the ability to quickly penetrate complex problems...
...process rather than sit back and have it on my conscience that I did nothing to stop a second holocaust" Hesburgh also suggested that the U.S. withhold grain sales to the Soviet Union unless the Kremlin collaborates in making 150,000 tons available to the Cambodians immediately. Robert Byrd of West Virginia, the Senate majority leader, contacted Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin in an appeal to Moscow to persuade Phnom-Penh to allow food to be trucked in. At the same time, Kennedy is supporting a move to increase the amount of aid pledged by President Carter from $69 million...
...relief effort by more than 20 private agencies. An OXFAM barge laden with 1,500 tons of food arrived in the Cambodian port of Kompong Som last month, and two more are on the way. OXFAM has been permitted to station eight full-time staff members inside Cambodia. Robert Hohler, at OXFAM'S Boston-based U.S. branch, attributes the organization's success to its apolitical status...
...Kirkland wants to replace the old standard with case-by-case wage settlements. The top business representative on the board. National Association of Manufacturers President R. Heath Larry, argued equally adamantly against moving toward any à la carte pay guide. At another point in the meeting, Kirkland and R. Robert Russell, director of the Administration's Council on Wage and Price Stability, heatedly squabbled over whether unions should try to make up in wages the income lost due to higher energy prices. The committee's chairman, Harvard Economist John Dunlop, must have thought that he was back...
...DIED. Robert Boulin, 59, French Minister of Labor recently implicated by the press in a 1974 real estate scandal; after swallowing an overdose of barbiturates and drowning in a pond in the Rambouillet Forest, southwest of Paris. Boulin was the minister of longest record, having served all three governments of the Fifth Republic in nine different Cabinet posts in 15 years. A respected labor negotiator, he was rumored to have been a likely successor to the unpopular French Prime Minister, Raymond Barre. Initial speculation that Boulin was driven to suicide by published accounts of his alleged misconduct triggered a flurry...