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Article: New man in town
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- December 10, 1996
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After his six years, eventful years in Washington were ended by
the election of Jimmy Carter in 1976, that wily old tax lawyer
William F. Casey went back to his law practice. (He had been
Securities and Exchange Commission chairman, undersecretary of state
for economic affairs, and head of the Export-Import Bank.) In a mood
of high frustration, he founded a think tank, and called it
International Center for Economic Policy Studies.
That was the easy part.
All that was necessary to make it effective was an editor. Casey
found one in William Hammett, then faded into the background -- if
you can call Langley, Va., the background. Casey served from 1981
until his death in 1987 as Ronald ...