Word: abzugs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Both McCloskey and his audience disagreed with a proposal by Rep. Bella Abzug (D-N.Y.) that the CIA disclose all its sources, methods and operatives on the grounds that the executive branch has no constitutional right to withhold information from Congress...
...mail of many people not on the list was also scrutinized. Among them: Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns, Senator Hubert Humphrey, Senator Edward Kennedy, Congresswoman Bella Abzug, Martin Luther King, his widow Coretta and Jay Rockefeller, a likely Democratic candidate for Governor of West Virginia. Church had a personal quarrel with the CIA because it had opened a letter that he wrote to his mother-in-law in Boise, Idaho, while he was touring Russia in 1971. Also routinely monitored was mail to or from Harvard University and the Ford and Rockefeller foundations...
...contest is billed as the "King of Capitol Hill," a sexist appellation that was sure to stir up interest from feminist Congresswoman Bella Abzug. While congressional Republicans and Democrats spent part of their week preparing to square off in the half-mile bike race, the 60-yd. dash and other events-all to raise money for the retarded children's Special Olympics-Representative Abzug jumped into some sweat pants and sized up the volleyball competition. Her spirits may have been high, but some opponents doubted whether she would be able to reach those low returns. "My serve," confessed...
Despite these prospects, some New Yorkers are not prepared for even initial austerities. The teachers' union was threatening a strike last week over city attempts to increase their duties and class size and eliminate some jobs (see EDUCATION). Congressman Herman Badillo and Congresswoman Bella Abzug urged New Yorkers to refuse to pay the new transit fare, raised last week from 35? to 50?. In parts of the city, protesters jumped subway turnstiles. At least in one case, they provoked a bloody confrontation with police...
...major goal of gay activists now is a federal law prohibiting discrimination. Democratic Representative Bella Abzug of New York introduced a bill last March to amend the 1964 Civil Rights Act by adding "affectional or sexual preference" to the proscriptions against discriminating because of race, religion or sex. The bill has 23 co-sponsors but is not given any serious chance of passage during the current Congress...