Path: bloom-picayune.mit.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!americast.com!americast.com!americast-post Newsgroups: americast.twt.life From: americast-post@AmeriCast.Com Organization: American Cybercasting Approved: americast-post@AmeriCast.com Subject: She's the life of any party Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 15:07:56 EST Message-ID: \SE E;LIFE;ABOUT TOWN \HD She's the life of any party \BY Anne Gowen \CR THE WASHINGTON TIMES "There's a feeling of great hopefulness in the city that's wonderful to see," said Pamela Harriman, Democratic fund-raiser, philanthropist and Washington grande dame, speaking of the new era. Mrs. Harriman - dressed in chic black with a glittering paisley shawl - lent glamour to the otherwise rather staid Lawyers Alliance for World Security (LAWS) dinner Thursday at the Capital Hilton. (When asked if she might perhaps be on a short list for a post in the Clinton administration, she merely demurred, saying, "I'll just do what I've always done.") Mrs. Harriman was there to help present an award named after her late husband, Ambassador W. Averell Harriman - the statesman, former New York governor and nuclear arms-control proponent who served five American presidents. This year's honoree "for significant contributions to the cause of world security" was Adrian "Bill" DeWind and the group he heads, the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). Mr. DeWind said he was honored to receive his award, especially since it was named for such "a distinguished statesman." He left it to others to toot his horn. In the mid-1980s, LAWS Chairman and former SALT negotiator Ralph Earle II explained, NRDC was instrumental in placing the first seismic monitoring devices at the Semipalitinsk nuclear test site in what was then the Soviet Union and at an American site in Nevada. The move was a breakthrough in the on-site testing impasse that had plagued arms-reduction talks. For this and other achievements, Mr. Earle said, "I think they deserve the Nobel Prize." On hand to chat politics and discuss President-elect Bill Clinton's commitment to arms reduction were some 200 guests, including FBI Director William Sessions, former chief U.S. arms negotiator Paul Warnke, former CIA Director William Colby, former Education Secretary Shirley Hufstedler, LAWS board member John Rhinelander, Ann Scoville, Phyllis Wyeth, Leonard Marks and Robert Blake. This article is copyright 1992 The Washington Times. Redistribution to other sites is not permitted except by arrangement with American Cybercasting Corporation. For more information, send-email to usa@AmeriCast.COM