Word: groups
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Brussels, meanwhile, the NATO Foreign Ministers listened politely to Secretary of State Edmund Muskie's argument that they should do nothing that might interfere with the Camp David peace process. As a group the Western Europeans are not prepared to remain inactive until after the U.S. elections. Some, including British Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington, favor an immediate thrust toward a U.N. resolution recognizing the right of Palestinians to a homeland in return for acceptance by the Palestine Liberation Organization and all the Arab states of Israel's right to exist within secure frontiers. Says a ranking British diplomat...
...Kurdish rebels and officials of the Pahlavi regime to death. When Banisadr denied Khalkhali's right to exercise judicial functions as chief narcotics investigator, the cleric openly defied him, forcing the President to back down. Earlier, the headstrong judge had already defied presidential orders by leading a group of Islamic zealots on a rampage that demolished the Shah's father's marble mausoleum...
...group assembled in the Cabinet room with the President, the Vice President and four Cabinet officers. For the next hour and a half, while Carter took notes in his careful schoolboy handwriting, the executives made their pitches in descending order of company size, beginning with GM Chairman Thomas A. Murphy. They spoke of the need for tax incentives to help customers buy cars and to aid the companies in modernizing, for regulatory relief and for easier credit conditions. Though auto loans were specifically exempted from the Administration's March credit restraints, the President was astonished to hear that money...
When J. Richard Munro was named group vice president for video in 1975, Time Inc.'s television and film operations were headed for losses of nearly $3 million that year. "We gave him all the dogs and said, 'Make something of them,' " recalls Chairman Andrew Heiskell. "He managed to pull it off." By the close of 1979, the video group was a smash (pretax profits: $68.5 million), and Dick Munro was executive vice president and headed for the top of Time...
...Heiskell says. "There's no confusion in anybody's mind about that." After graduating from Colgate University, Munro joined TIME magazine's circulation department. He later shifted to SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, where he rose to publisher. In 1972 he was named deputy to the group vice president in charge of book publishing, cable television and film operations. Enthusiastic and disciplined, Munro rises every morning before dawn and runs six to eight miles almost every evening. Says Heiskell: "He has enormous intelligence, integrity and humanity. He's one of the finest acquirers of talent that...