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Richard Leakey, President Arap Moi and the WMCD made the international news headlines when a stock pile of 12 tons of ivory was burned in 1989 in Nairobi National Park.
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* Leakey, Richard.
The driving force in the east African researches was the Leakey family, with Louis Leakey and his wife Mary Leakey, and later their son Richard and daughter in-law Meave being among the most successful fossil hunters and palaeoanthropologists.
The fossil evidence was insufficient for Richard Leakey to resolve this debate.
* Leakey, Richard & Lewin, Roger.
One of the most famous and complete hominid skeletons ever discovered was the 1. 6 million year old Homo erectus known as the Turkana Boy which was found by Kamoya Kimeu in 1984 on an excavation led by Richard Leakey.
* Richard Leakey ( 1944-)
Richard Erskine Frere Leakey ( born 19 December 1944 in Nairobi ) is a politician, paleoanthropologist and conservationist.
As a small boy Richard lived in Nairobi with his parents, Louis Leakey, curator of the Coryndon Museum, and Mary Leakey, director of the Leakey excavations at Olduvai, and his two brothers, Jonathan and Philip.
Richard shifted away from paleontology in 1989, but his wife Meave Leakey and daughter Louise Leakey still continue paleontological research in Northern Kenya.
In 1989 Richard Leakey was appointed the head of the Wildlife Conservation and Management Department ( WMCD ) by President Daniel Arap Moi in response to the international outcry over the poaching of elephants and the impact it was having on the wildlife of Kenya.
In 1993, a small propeller-driven plane piloted by Richard Leakey crashed, crushing his lower legs, both of which were later amputated.
In a few months Richard Leakey was walking again on artificial limbs.
Richard Leakey wrote about his experiences at the KWS in his book Wildlife Wars: My Battle to Save Kenya's Elephants ( 2001 ).
In May 1995 Richard Leakey joined some Kenyan intellectuals in launching a new political party-the Safina Party, which in Swahili means " Noah's Ark ".
If they won't, I want somebody else to do it ," announced Richard Leakey.
In 1999, Moi had to appoint Richard Leakey as Cabinet Secretary and overall head of the civil service at the insistence of international donor institutions as a pre-condition for the resumption of donor funds.
In 2004, Richard Leakey founded and chaired WildlifeDirect, a Kenya-based charitable organization.
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Richard and President
`` I think that all Americans will resent deeply the statements made about President Eisenhower by Richard J. Hughes.
Since Election Day, Vice President Richard Nixon had virtually retired -- by his own wish -- from public view.
* 1973 – Watergate Scandal: U. S. President Richard Nixon announces that top White House aides H. R.
* 1974 – As a direct result of the Watergate scandal, Richard Nixon becomes the first President of the United States to resign from office.
That evening, at a state dinner in Los Angeles, California, they are awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by U. S. President Richard Nixon.
* 1974 – President Richard Nixon, in a nationwide television address, announces his resignation from the office of the President of the United States effective noon the next day.
* 1974 – Watergate Scandal: President Richard Nixon announces the release of edited transcripts of White House tape recordings relating to the scandal.
* 1971 – President Richard Nixon completes the break from the gold standard by ending convertibility of the United States dollar into gold by foreign investors.
* 1970 – Vietnam War: U. S. President Richard M. Nixon formally authorizes American combat troops to fight communist sanctuaries in Cambodia.
* 1974 – 10, 000 march in Washington, D. C., calling for the impeachment of US President Richard Nixon
* 1971 – President Richard Nixon announces his decision to increase the rate of American troop withdrawals from Vietnam.
The treaty was signed in Moscow on May 26, 1972 by the President of the United States, Richard Nixon and the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Leonid Brezhnev ; and ratified by the US Senate on August 3, 1972.
In a December 1992 article for The New Yorker, Seymour Hersh reported that President Richard Nixon and Charles Colson had repeatedly discussed the Capp case in Oval Office recordings that had recently been made available by the National Archives.
The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act ( ANCSA ) was signed into law by President Richard M. Nixon on December 23, 1971, the largest land claims settlement in United States history.
* Richard A. Posner An Affair of State: The Investigation, Impeachment, and Trial of President Clinton ( 1999 ) ISBN 0-674-00080-3
The U. S. maintained a stated national policy of never using biological warfare under any circumstances since an Executive Decision in November 1969, by President Richard Nixon.
These programs continued until 1969, when by executive order President Richard Nixon shut down all programs related to American offensive use of biological weapons.
US President Richard M. Nixon announced his new policy on biological warfare at a press conference in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on November 25, 1969.
On August 10, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon formally transmitted the Biological Weapons Convention to the United States Senate for ratification.
If the corporate President is not the COO ( such as Richard Parsons of Time Warner from 1995 – 2001 ), then many division heads report directly to the CEO themselves, with the President taking on special assignments from the CEO.
* Corporate Shuffle by Richard Garfield — 1997 ; A Dilbert-branded card game similar to Wizard of the Coast's The Great Dalmuti and the drinking game President
He otherwise left most political activity to his Vice President, Richard Nixon.
Eisenhower and Vice President Richard Nixon with their host, King Saud of Saudi Arabia, Washington 1957
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