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Still, there is a massive culture gap between the congressional generations. New member Sonny Bono admonished his colleagues, most of them lawyers, for dallying over words when the public was crying for police protection. ``Sometimes I find it rather disgusting. And it goes on and on,'' Bono said. ``And pompously.'' His remark, coming as it did in the course of a discussion of constitutional rights, was met with stunned bipartisan silence. Nobody ever said the revolution was going to be easy...
...some months before Sampedro and Jorge Arroyo, his pro bono lawyer, learn whether Strasbourg will hear their plea, the first such to be put to the commission. Says Sampedro: ``Death is a taboo in our society. But for a psychologically mature person, voluntary death, when it is to bring to an end an incurable or intolerable suffering, is rational.'' A poem he has written called ``Why Die?'' answers itself in the first line: ``Porque el sueno se ha vuelto pesadilla'' (Because the dream has become a nightmare...
Highlights include a Judiciary Committee session, in which a balanced-budget amendment to the Constitution is passed (with Bono voting in favor), and an interview with PEOPLE...
Representative Sonny Bono (R., Calif.) returns to Washington after a weekend in Palm Springs, where he rested up from his first week in Congress, worked in his district office, gave interviews and hosted a do for the Palm Springs International Film Festival...
Roll Call breaks the news that Bono has bought a town house at a swank gated development in Georgetown. Meanwhile, after a hectic round of committee meetings, a briefing on fiscal issues, an interview with CBS News and a sit- down with a representative from the National Association of Realtors, Bono catches a flight back to Palm Springs to view flood damage and attend the film-festival gala...