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...jaunty and burly Irish-Catholic father of seven, Curran was U.S. Attorney in New York from 1973 to 1975. During his term, he convicted Mafioso Carmine ("Mr. Gribbs") Tramunti for trafficking in narcotics, and helped send Bernard Bergman to jail for operating a chain of nursing homes that were defrauding the Government. From 1968 to 1973, Curran was a member of the New York State commission of investigation, working on cases involving the awards of sweetheart contracts, pornography in Times Square and real estate tax swindles...
Eleven weeks into his first term, Edward Joseph King, 53, has run up a remarkable string of fumbles. Apparently oblivious to the advice of much of his own staff, King made a series of appointments so carelessly selected that within weeks four of them were forced to resign. One was pushed out for reputed ties with the Mafia and another for alleged conflicts of interest and mismanagement of union funds. A third was found to have been an associate of a lawyer convicted of fraud and arson. The fourth had claimed to hold degrees from two prestigious European universities...
...part, the Israelis were demanding guarantees of oil from the wells that will be turned over to the Egyptians when Cairo regains sovereignty over the Sinai. Sadat refused this, saying that it was not part of the original Camp David agreement. He argued that by giving Israel a long-term petroleum agreement, he would be granting it "favored nation" treatment. This would offend other Arab states, something he could scarcely afford...
...barely past the protoplasmic stage of evolution, feminists in ERA states insist that it is only part of a much larger change in attitudes. Shoshana Cardin, head of the Maryland Commission for Women, points to the 28 women serving in the state legislature (eleven of whom are new this term) as evidence of Maryland women's "greater sense of opportunity and equality...
Thus we were flatly opposed--to both sides--in the war between Vietnam and Cambodia, and today we declare our opposition to any long-term occupation by the Vietnamese army which would place the question of self-determination for the Cambodian people on the agenda...