Word: agendas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...appropriations failure could be remedied. Hardly had the session ended before Governor John Patterson called for a five-day special session. To keep passions from boiling again, Patterson suggested that the agenda be limited to appropriations. In that event, redistricting was a dead issue and Alabama's Congressmen would have to run at large in the 1962 election. Despite their years of service, none of the nine has a statewide reputation; all, as a result, would stand in danger of losing. The nine men themselves were acutely aware of the peril. Warned Albert Rains, a nervous veteran...
Power of the Weak. Thanks to such political divisions, the official conference agenda is cautiously uncomplicated and uncontroversial: "exchange of views on the international situation" and "strengthening peace and security." Western experts guess that if the official agenda is observed, the West may expect nothing more than one more verbal flogging for "imperialism" and colonialism, along with exhortations for everyone, especially the West, to disarm completely-and, of course, to give aid generously. Hopes for any Afro-Asian condemnation of Soviet imperialism in Eastern Europe are relatively slim. Nehru, for one, tends to pass over irritating disputes as a sort...
Private Reasons. The disagreement came over timing. Rusk flew into Paris hoping to persuade his partners that there should be immediate contact with Russia to set a date and fix an agenda for a Berlin conference. This, he argued, would regain the initiative for the West. The French and West Germans were unwilling, and each has a private reason. West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer is in the midst of an election campaign and in particular wants no discussion of possible bargaining concessions or muddying up the electioneering before election day, on Sept...
European economic integration and Algeria are on the agenda of the weekly International Forum Wednesday at 8 p.m. in Burr Hall...
...Raises & Pensions. Most tedious task on the agenda was ratification of 118 118 constitutional amendments, a marathon polling performance that took two days and a four-hour night session. As constitution-committee chairman, Hoffa had dictated the changes. As convention chairman, he conducted the loud ceremony of their approval. With one hand on his gavel and the other on switches that controlled floor microphones, the Teamster boss directed his delegates through 92 pages of "reform." Among the amendments: ¶A Hoffa pay raise from $50,000 to $75,000 a year, plus unlimited expenses, making him labor's highest...