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DIED. Charles Robertson, 77, retired partner of the New York investment banking firm of Smith, Barney & Co. who, with his wife Marie, donated $35 million in 1961 to endow the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton, the largest single gift in the university's history; of pneumonia; in Delray Beach...
These revelations caused congressional Democrats to question Reagan's motives in the spending cuts. Said Representative Barney Frank of Massachusetts: "If this was a budget decision, then I'm Lady Diana Spencer." Added Congressman Thomas Lantos of California: "Calling this a budget decision is a smokescreen. It's a policy change based on the Administration's relationship with the oil companies." Responding just as vehemently, Energy Secretary James Edwards insisted that the prosecutions would proceed even under the new budget. Said he: "By God, there'll be no amnesty." Meanwhile, the oil companies sit silently...
Members of the Global 2000 staff strongly dispute Simon's assertions. Gerald Barney, a Washington consultant who served as the panel's director, denounces Simon's article as "full of factual errors, distortions, misrepresentations and falsehoods." Bill Long, director of the State Department's Office of Food and Natural Resources and a participant in the study, points out that the report focused on a 20-year span, while Simon relies on statistics that cover periods ranging from four to 100 years to reach his conclusions. More important, Simon almost always cites figures only...
Tsongas and Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass) are currently sponsoring a bill to stop aid to El Salvador. A similar proposal is now being presented to the House of Representatives by Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass...
...film is not quite up to its star. It occupies a country somewhere between Barney Miller and the works of Joseph Wambaugh: a land of masculine camaraderie in which the bureaucrats don't understand how things are in the real world, and an unspoken tenderness is exchanged between police and perpetrators because they both inhabit the same mean streets. But the cut of life examined in the film and its attitudes are not highly original, and are too close for comfort to the manner of made-for-TV movies...