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...Congress who try to block the economic package and to light fires against them in their home districts, coordinated by Lyn Nofziger, Assistant to the President for political affairs. This drive will use mailing lists compiled by the Republican National Committee and by such friendly lobbies as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Manufacturers. Sympathetic constituents will be urged to protest any foot dragging by their Congressmen and Senators...
...through their vote on a new government when the heavy rococo doors of the Cortes, the country's parliament in the center of Madrid, burst open. In rushed a dozen armed attackers, most of them wearing olive drab parkas and blue jeans. In the marble corridors outside the chamber, some 200 uniformed men nervously fingered their weapons as they sealed off the exits. The invaders fired their submachine guns at the ceiling to drown out the Deputies' protests, causing plaster to rain over the assembly. Most of the country's elected parliamentarians, the government's senior...
Shocked and sobered by the attempted coup, the country's political leaders sought to put aside some of their differences. They returned to the pock-marked chamber the following day and elected Calvo-Sotelo their new Prime Minister by an absolute 186-158 majority. That was 16 more votes than Calvo-Sotelo had expected to get in the earlier, rudely interrupted balloting. The Deputies also gave standing ovations to Suárez and Gutiérrez Mellado, both of whom had courageously stood up to Tejero. But the loudest applause was reserved for the King, who was praised...
...Chamber also voted to oppose a rent surcharge to fund the administration of rent control...
...Chamber took its stand against rent control in the wake of a city council vote asking the state for permission to impose a one per cent payroll tax on city businesses. Armistead said yesterday that tax would cost the University as much as $950,000 a year...