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...same search committee that recommended Attorney General Richard L. Thornburgh for the post just two years ago because of his experience in electoral politics is again looking for someone who will continue to move the school in a real world direction...

Author: By Madhavi Sunder, | Title: Kennedy School in Transition | 5/5/1989 | See Source »

Champion, a top aide to Gov. Michael S. Dukakis who also chaired the search committee which selected Thornburgh two years ago, said the committee would make its official recommendation for the directorship to departing Dean Graham T. Allison '62 by the end of the term...

Author: By Madhavi Sunder, | Title: Kennedy School in Transition | 5/5/1989 | See Source »

Because the IOP has had four directors in the past three years, search committee members say they are concerned with securing stability for the institute. Williams has served as acting head since last fall when then-Director Thornburgh was reappointed attorney general by President Bush...

Author: By Madhavi Sunder, | Title: Kennedy School in Transition | 5/5/1989 | See Source »

...long campaign to guarantee abortion rights. After the march, they hit the offices of Capitol Hill lawmakers to lobby for a federal law that would keep abortion legal even if the court reverses Roe. Activists dumped 200,000 letters at the Justice Department last week, urging Attorney General Dick Thornburgh to drop his request to the court that it overturn Roe. "This has for the past 15 years been a legal struggle," said Ira Glasser, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union. "It has now become a political struggle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Whose Life Is It? (Roe v. Wade) | 5/1/1989 | See Source »

...murder of DEA agent Enrique Camarena. Many DEA agents wondered why it took so long to capture Felix Gallardo, since he had been living openly in Guadalajara. Some suspected that his arrest had been timed to coincide with last week's "law-enforcement summit" between U.S. Attorney General Dick Thornburgh and his Mexican counterpart, Enrique Alvarez del Castillo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mexico Wimp No More | 4/24/1989 | See Source »

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