Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...long Op-Ed page article in the Washington Post, Kissinger pointed out that he had also "called for national unity behind the President" in all his recent public comments on Iran in New York, Dallas and Los Angeles. But he concentrated on reports in the press that he had pushed the Administration to take in the Shah. He said his involvement began at the Administration's urging last January to help find a residence in the U.S. for the Shah, who was then under heavy pressure at home to leave Iran. Kissinger said he asked David Rockefeller to join...
Rockefeller was clearly the man who alerted Administration officials to the Shah's medical problems. The banker has conceded that he helped arrange for the examination of the Shah in Mexico by Dr. Benjamin Kean, a New York specialist in tropical diseases. Rockefeller said that Kean "confirmed the gravity of the Shah's condition," and that "I insisted on having the results of that examination brought to the attention of the State Department." Some officials there were skeptical and suggested that a Government doctor should examine the Shah. Rockefeller then called Vance and expressed his anger...
...ride out the storm. But last week, seven weeks after the FBI submitted its preliminary findings U.S. Attorney General Benjamin R. Civiletti recommended that a special prosecutor be appointed to look further into allegations that Jordan had snorted cocaine. Soon afterward, the Department of Justice announced that New York City Attorney Arthur H. Christy, 56, a Republican, had been appointed to the position by a special federal court...
...attachment order must be followed by court trial in which Morgan Guaranty is expected to argue that it needs to hold onto the shares until Tehran guarantees that its loans will be repaid. Meanwhile, more asset seizures seem likely. Asserted an officer of a New York City multinational bank: "We are going to grab every Iranian asset in sight. There is already a line of banks halfway down the block in West Germany waiting to do the same thing...
...pages devoted to owning a house, for example, dispatch property insurance in four paragraphs. Retirement planning in Myerson's view seems to consist only of setting up a tax-deferred IRA or Keogh Plan savings fund. The former Miss America and ex-commissioner of consumer affairs for New York City is hardheaded about bargaining over terms, especially when buying a home. Counsels Myerson: "If you find the house fails to meet certain standards, you should not immediately cross it off your list. But, armed with the information of what is needed to bring the house up to high standards...