Word: butz
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...primary concern of the participants was the growing number of books, pamphlets and articles that have appeared in the U.S. and Europe attempting to show that there never was a Holocaust. The most notorious example: The Hoax of the Twentieth Century by Arthur R. Butz, an electronics engineering professor from Northwestern University. Said European Parliament President Simone Veil, an Auschwitz survivor: "We are fighting the possibility of a second Holocaust. Already there are people denying that a Holocaust took place, but we are the witnesses and we will make our voices heard...
...prohibit discrimination against homosexuals in jobs and housing. Voters in Eugene a year earlier vetoed a similar local ordinance 2 to 1. Fitzgerald also faults Weaver for having voted against most major defense appropriation bills during his six years in Congress. Former President Gerald Ford, his Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz and conservative retired Army Generals John Singlaub and Daniel Graham are making pilgrimages into the district on Fitzgerald's behalf. Polls show that Weaver still leads, but Fitzgerald has come out of the forest swinging and spending in a way that will ensure that the final outcome should...
...Agriculture Department bought farmers' surpluses and stored them temporarily in huge and expensive granaries. The department also paid farmers millions to take some of their land out of production?perhaps the biggest and most expensive support program the U.S. ever had. This all changed when Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz took advantage of the worldwide grain shortage to sell the Government's storage facilities and urged farmers to plant from "fence post to fence post." At the same time, Congress rewrote the farm-support law so that nearly all crops would end up being sold on the private market...