Word: senior
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chief value will be that Carter and Brezhnev have finally got together and demonstrated that they consider détente to be very much alive. "We will urge greater cooperation between us and emphasize that détente is a two-way street, as we always have," said a senior Administration official, "but realistically, we cannot expect much more to be accomplished...
...Erasmus commission also provided a fascinating summary of what happened to the Muldergate millions. The commission charged that some $500,000 kept bobbing up in various bank accounts belonging to Rhoodie and two of his brothers; Rhoodie's salary as a senior civil servant never exceeded $1,350 a month. The commission also declared that $19 million in public funds went to L. Van Zyl Alberts, the publisher of a newspaper and a magazine that were, in reality, secretly funded government publications; the report implies that the publisher's use of the money points "to theft and fraud...
...looked into Cutler's service in Zaire," explained a senior civil servant in Tehran. "We saw it as being of a colonial type, and that he was unaccustomed to dealing with equals. We don't want another Sullivan or Helms [former U.S. Ambassadors William Sullivan and Richard Helms]. Iran has changed, and America must recognize this truth. Our good relations depend upon an ambassador who understands what has happened here...
Helen, an older girl, is there to share her experience with divorce. She is a member of a group-three years old and mostly girls, so far-at Lexington Senior High1 School. There are many services for divorced parents now, but so far only some two dozen such groups throughout the country for kids. The one in Lexington is known as the Divorced Kids Group, a name with more zest than, say, Children of Broken Homes Group, but not entirely satisfactory. Why should children define themselves by their parents' behavior? Howard Schofield, the counselor who started the group, feels...
...senior British diplomat who admires Schmidt complains that the new West German leadership is still too narrowly focused on national interest instead of international cooperation. Says he: "We haven't yet seen the wider vision. It is still 'Germany First.' And the German stand ?like Scarlett O'Hara's vow that 'I'm never going to be hungry again...