Word: williams
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...ARMS OF KRUPP, by William Manchester. An encyclopedic history of the eccentric family whose arsenal on the Ruhr armed Germany in two world wars...
...expected to be asked by Nixon to stay beyond Jan. 20. His deputy, former Under Secretary of Defense Cyrus Vance, will remain in Paris for a month or so to brief Lodge and the No. 2 man, New York Attorney Lawrence E. Walsh, a longtime associate of William Rogers. The delicate business of detecting minuscule wiggles in Hanoi's line, often signaled by a change in the tense of a single verb, will fall to two eminently competent professionals. They are Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Philip Habib, who was Lodge's political right hand in Saigon...
Nixon's choice of William P. Rogers as his Secretary of State offered no clue. Rogers is proud that his record is unmarked by a single public statement on Viet Nam. But when Nixon last week named Henry Cabot Lodge, his 1960 running mate, to be chief U.S. negotiator in Paris, it seemed to many that the new Administration was at last tipping its hand. Lodge, who twice served as U.S. Ambassador to Saigon, was the instrument of American power in Viet Nam at crucial moments of the war. A number of commentators argued that his selection...
...came out of World War II a major with silver and bronze stars won in the Battle of the Bulge. A Republican, he has influential friends in both parties. Negotiator Cyrus Vance was his roommate at Yale Law School, and he is extremely close to Nixon Adviser William Scranton. While he displays the McNamara traits of super-efficiency and clipped speech, Resor is known as an artful pacifier of both generals and politicians...
Some Heat. Many influential conservation groups, among them the Sierra Club, are waiting to learn more of Hickel's views before taking a stand on his appointment. So are conservationist members of the Senate Interior Committee: Democrats Walter Mondale of Minnesota, William Proxmire and Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin, South Dakota's George McGovern and Lee Metcalf of Montana...