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...possible reason: Attorney General Richard L. Thornburgh has reportedly encouraged the investigation because he saw "waste" at Harvard, where he was head of the Institute of Politics for the year before being named to his Justice Department post...
...made a commitment of three to five years to the IOP," Royer explained in a recent interview. "Unless I get a Cabinet-level appointment like Thornburgh...
...when Institute of Politics Director Richard L. Thornburgh left the job to head for Washington and the Justice Department after little more than a year at Harvard, the IOP search committee shifted gears...
...imagine drug gangsters murdering both Attorney General Dick Thornburgh and his predecessor, Edwin Meese. Next, pretend that drug triggermen and guerrilla allies rub out almost half the Supreme Court -- say, Justices William Brennan, Byron White, Antonin Scalia and Sandra Day O'Connor -- along with hundreds of lower-ranking but still prominent jurists. Expand the list of victims to include Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee and Los Angeles police chief Daryl Gates, both slain, and Amy Carter, kidnaped and held briefly as a warning to authorities who might get tough with the narco-barons. And then the grand climax...
Even so, Bennett's plan has stirred qualms within the Administration. Attorney General Dick Thornburgh worries about militarizing antidrug operations abroad. Says a Justice Department official: "Law-enforcement officers are trained to extract criminals from society, to think about the rights of innocent people and to be mindful of the sovereignty of other nations. Military forces are trained to take on whatever gets in the way, to destroy the enemy...