USIA nepotism question roils over high profile appointments
Nebraska Senator Edward Zorinsky questions USIA hiring of relatives and friends of Reagan officials. Caspar Weinberger Jr and Barbara Haig are named among appointees while USIA defends selections as proper and based on qualifications under the Foreign Service Act of 1980.
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New York Times
Washington
Juliet
Edward Zorinsky
Nebraska Democrat
U.S. Information Agency
Weinberger
Haig and Clark
Charles Z. Wick
USIA
Bangkok
Thailand
Wick
Zorinsky
Caspar W. Weinberger Jr
Secretary of Defense
New York
Barbara Haig
Alexander M. Haig Jr
Miss Haig
Monica Clark
William P. Clark
U.S
Bonn
Daniel Wattenberg
Ben Wattenberg
Board For International Broadcasting
Paris
Anne Collins
Clark
London
Foreign Service
Catherine Smyth
Ottawa
Bush
James A. Baker 3d
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Caspar Weinberger Jr
Harvard
San Francisco
Gandhi's Vision Fades in India Despite Global Interest
The Los Angeles Times reports Gandhi's ideas largely ignore in India while abroad interest grows. Foreign demand boosts Gandhi biographical books and khadi items. cinema renews curiosity but not Gandhian thought domestically.
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Los Angeles Times
Calcutta
India
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Mahatma
Gandhi
Assam
Punjab
Bihar
Times of India
Richard Attenborough
M.K. Mehta
New Delhi
National Gandhi Museum
Razi Ahmad
Bible Year suit filed against Reagan over year of the Bible
Sixteen plaintiffs including ministers rabbis Buddhists Sikhs humanists agnostics and atheists sue President Reagan in federal court claiming the 1983 Year of the Bible proclamation and Congress resolution violate the First Amendment. They argue government preference harms Christians and non Christians alike. In the proclamation Reagan urged citizens to re examine and rediscover the Bible.
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Los Angeles Times Service
Los Angeles
Reagan
Church-State Project
Southern California American Civil Liberties Union
Byrne imprint costly to erase from Chicago city items
After Jane Byrne’s 1983 loss, Chicago will remove her name from 1,400 city vehicles at about 14 dollars each and pay 10 thousand to 20 thousand to fix O’Hare signs. New vehicle stickers in June will still bear Byrne branding and reflect lingering memory across banners, posters, and programs.
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Los Angeles Times
Chicago
Jane M. Byrne
Harold Washington
Byrne
Department of Streets and Sanitation
O’hare
Polish unrest in 1981 stirs Estonian nationalist backlash
Senior Soviet official Karl Vaino described Polish labor turmoil fueling nationalist sentiment in Soviet Estonia during fall 1981. He noted a circulating call for monthly strikes, attempts to imitate Solidarity, and increased Soviet military presence reinforcing Estonian grievances while the Estonian Communist Party weakened.
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Washington Post
Moscow
Estonia
Solidarity Independent
Poland
Karl Vaino
Estonian Communist Party
Vaino
Kommunist
Central Committee
Justice and Democracy
Solidarity
Soviet Union
Kremlin
Wojciech Jaruzelski
Baltic Republic
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