Word: governor
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...confidence to Daniel arap Moi, 55. Arap Moi has been Kenya's President since the death 14 months ago of Jomo Kenyatta, the autocratic old warrior who secured the East African country's inde pendence from Britain in 1963 and ruled it like a benign colonial governor ever after. Not only did Arap Moi run without opposition in his own district,* but many old Kenyatta regime holdovers were ousted. Arap Moi will now be free to put his own imprint on Kenya...
...energy companies and Washington policymakers are sold on shale, others are not. Colorado Governor Richard Lamm protests that any crash development program "could do irreparable damage to our water supply, to our communities, to our environment." State officials, local representatives of the Environmental Protection Agency, the Sierra Club and similar groups are allied to stop or at least to stall shale development. Water, a precious resource in the tri-state region, is one of their greatest concerns. Conservationists claim that shale extraction could use from one to five barrels of water for each barrel of oil, but company officials maintain...
Bird herself had called for the investigation last Nov. 24. A liberal 43-year-old activist with no prior judicial experience, she had been opposed by law-and-order conservatives and some of the legal establishment ever since her surprise appointment in 1977 by Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. By last November, under the pressure of allegations of political maneuvering by the court, she decided that something had to be done to restore confidence in the state's highest tribunal...
...commission entrusted with the investigation is composed of five judges appointed by the supreme court, two lawyers named by the governors of the state bar, and two lay people chosen by the Governor. In existence since 1961 to hear complaints and bring charges against wayward judges, it now found itself faced with the ultimate test, a probe of the supreme court. Under instructions from California's judicial council, the commission was required to conduct a public hearing, and it launched one last June, under the glare of television lights, after a five-month closed inquiry during which it examined...
...media like conflict, tension, the suspense of contest. We like these things because they make good copy. Our banner might well carry the motto 'Let's You and Him Fight'... We desperately need a contest." That answer doesn't satisfy New York's Lieutenant Governor Mario M. Cuomo, a Carter Seib of the Post supporter. He accuses the press of being "in love with Ted Kennedy" and adds: "Jimmy Carter is a bore, and I think the media cannot tolerate a bore. That's not the way to pick a President...