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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gilligan became controversial almost from the day he arrived at AID two years ago. After surveying his staff, he bluntly declared that too many of them were "overage, overgrade and over here." His last complaint reflected his conviction that foreign aid administrators should be based in the countries being served...
Before joining Rocky's staff in 1976, Marshack had worked for Associated Press Radio in Washington for six months. Her former boss at A.P. Radio, Bill McCloskey, recalled her as an "aggressive news gatherer who came over classy. She was bright and ambitious, but not in the negative sense...
Ever the diplomat, Homayoun met again with the occupyuig attachés in an attempt to break the impasse, but negotiations ended in stalemate. Meanwhile twelve other members of the embassy staff, who had walked off the job in a mutiny against Zahedi and the Shah two weeks ago, announced their support of the acting deputy and his demand that the military officers give up the embassy...
...year ago the CELAM staff sent bishops a "preparatory document" for the current meeting. It contained only tepid criticism of militarism and of violence aimed at priests. The poor were offered "the happiness of the [spiritual] kingdom of which no human sorrow can deprive them." Outraged liberals charged that a campaign was afoot to "betray" Medellin. Brazil's bishops took the lead in attacking the document; a new, somewhat less conservative version was subsequently prepared. The Brazilians also rebuffed two top officials of the Vatican's Justice and Peace Commission who made a quiet trip to persuade them...
...under its new (since April 1977) chairman, A. Daniel O'Neal, 42, the ICC is now solidly for deregulation. A soft-voiced, informal lawyer (he wears short-sleeved shirts even in January) from Bremerton, Wash., O'Neal learned the ICC's operations as a consumer-minded staff member of the Senate Commerce Committee. He was named to the then eleven-member ICC (since reduced to six) by President Nixon in 1973, but it was not until Jimmy Carter made him chairman that he drew a bead on the set of regulations that had almost stamped out price...