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...Senate votes to amend the Export-Import Bank bill to limit credits to the Soviet Union to $300 million. With the U.S. economy in danger, supporters of the measure argue, Americans are unlikely to favor mass subsidization of the Soviet economy...
...Well, let me tell you my friends. You're headed down the road to '72. I want a party that doesn't discriminate just as much as you do. But now we're not going to provide for it in this manner. If you want to, go ahead and amend this [an affirmative action rule] as I'm quite sure you're going to do. But just remember you were told what's going to happen...
Staff attorneys for the Children's Defense Fund--a group that lobbied for the Buckley law and has opposed Pell's attempts to amend it--said yesterday that "Wexler's draft" has "undercut" and "screwed over" the original student files law in an effort to "kowtow to places like Harvard...
...said RUS decided to amend the constitution when McDaniel refused to recognize an election held under Robert's Rules of Order and withheld accounts of RUS loan-grant program funds. The treasurer appropriates these funds in the spring for individual projects, McDaniel said. McDaniel returned all other accounts to Collins...
...political leader Alexander Barkan has led the fight to amend language in the charter to ban "implied" as well as "mandatory" quotas. His chief opposition has come from party caucuses of women and blacks and the Democratic Planning Group that comprises the McGovern-McCarthy-Kennedy wing of the party. Barkan's opponents see a wholesale ban on quotas as a threat to greater minority group participation...