Word: richardson
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...terms for a withdrawal from occupied territories and for "secure and recognized boundaries," Watergate again approached one of its climaxes. Much of Nixon's attention during the week of the airlift was absorbed with the court of appeals decision on the Watergate tapes. On Oct. 17 Attorney General Elliot Richardson transmitted a White House proposal to Archibald Cox, the Watergate special prosecutor, that Nixon would allow John Stennis, a prestigious Senator, to verify the accuracy of proposed White House summaries of the disputed tapes. By coincidence I had a lunch scheduled that day with Richardson. He told...
...Prosecutor Cox refused to accept summaries of the Nixon tapes reviewed by Senator Stennis; he wanted the tapes themselves; he rejected Nixon's order that he renounce the right to subpoena further documents. Nixon forced a showdown by sacking Cox, which led to the resignation of Attorney General Elliot Richardson and the firing of Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus...
Jacobson's case was not unique. Two more WCVB reporters, Mary Richardson, 36, and Martha Bradlee, 28, became pregnant. Bradlee is the daughter-in-law of Washington Post Editor Ben Bradlee. The Emmy-winning reporter insisted on working up to her delivery date and reported two stories only hours before going into labor. In fact, the station's news director, James Thistle, had decided out of avuncular concern that Bradlee should avoid trips in the station's helicopter. Bradlee was furious and used the whirlybird until two weeks before her due date last January. After six weeks, she was back...
...assets if the U.S. took such action. The West would have severe trouble if forced to absorb not only Poland's debt but also the $52 billion owed by Hungary, Rumania and other Eastern European countries that may have to default if Poland does. Says Gordon Richardson, governor of the Bank of England: "It is not a very good idea to pursue policies that put at risk the whole international monetary system." Britain last week announced its own sanctions against Poland, including barring any new financial credits...
...could not care less. The language bruises the ear, ricocheting between period brassiness ("There's one slick bozo," "There's this bimbo there givin' me the glad eye") to sorry flights of pseudopoetic home truths. On the other hand, the nickelodeon-like music of Claibe Richardson tickles the ear. Apart from Dunaway, the only one who threatens to run away with the show is Designer John Lee Beatty, whose delightfully real open-air trolley car crisscrosses the stage on real tracks. -By T.E. Kalem