Word: scrantons
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...hope of avoiding the sort of ambassador he had criticized during his campaign, Carter asked Florida Governor Reubin Askew to chair a 20-person panel that would review potential ambassadors. Its members include Democratic Elder Statesmen Dean Rusk and Averell Harriman, Republican William Scranton and a sprinkling of academics and authors. For the past month, panel members have been meeting at the State Department in great secrecy, sifting a list of 400 names submitted by members of Congress, the foreign policy community and Carter's staff. Key criteria: foreign experience, language skills and "special considerations," a category that includes...
...boys trudging through a remote cemetery near Scranton, Pa., found the body of a woman who had been stabbed to death. Later that day, a man who identified himself as Roger Ferretti telephoned Scranton police to report that he had just killed a woman-and the call was routinely recorded. The cops located Ferretti, who denied killing the woman or making the call. Two days later police arrested Adam Topa, now 56, a factory worker who knew Ferretti and had been out drinking with the victim the night of the murder. The evidence against Topa was strong but largely circumstantial...
...present ambassador, William Scranton, although ideologically aligned with President Ford, urged the nomination of Young. His reasoning: Young would be in such close contact with his President that he might be able to influence national actions on the international stage, particularly in Africa, where the situation may become critical. The perceived closeness between Young and Carter is real, having both a political base (Young delivered invaluable black support to Carter) and a personal one (the fellow Georgians' knowledge of and respect for each other...
Many appraised the appointment positively. Says one former U.N. official: "Moynihan was the stick, Scranton was the carrot, and now Young can reap the benefits by innovating." According to a black diplomat, Young "could go far in changing the 'atmospherics,' and that is important since many U.N. issues are more symbolic than real...
...Security Council, the U.S. vetoed Viet Nam's membership bid. Last week the question came up again in the General Assembly. U.S. Ambassador William Scranton conceded that the Vietnamese probably cannot account for all the missing Americans, but still insisted that Hanoi was not doing enough to assuage "the anguish of the families of these...