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- <text id=91TT2414>
- <title>
- Oct. 28, 1991: Nominated:William Barr
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Oct. 28, 1991 Ollie North:"Reagan Knew Everything"
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- MILESTONES, Page 89
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- <p> NOMINATED. William Barr, 41, to be U.S. Attorney General; by
- President Bush; in Washington. Barr has been Acting Attorney
- General since August, when Dick Thornburgh resigned to run for a
- U.S. Senate seat from Pennsylvania. While director of the
- Central Intelligence Agency in 1976-77, and Bush met Barr, who
- was working as a CIA staff officer. As Deputy Attorney General,
- Barr wrote a controversial 1989 memorandum that provides legal
- justification for FBI agents to seize fugitives from justice
- outside the U.S. without permission of the country involved.
- Barr won the President's praise for his handling of a hostage
- crisis at a federal prison in Alabama last August.
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- </body></article>
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