Word: congress
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...Douglass Cater '46-'47, a Harvard delegate to the 1946 meeting of the International Student Congress, is forced to field allegations by Professor William Y. Elliott that the group is infiltrated by communists. JANUARY...
...miracle is complete. South Africans voted Wednesday without fuss or violence in their second free election, confirming their retiring president?s profound achievement of entrenching democracy in a country once wracked by brutal racism and civil war. At the same time, the fact that Mandela?s African National Congress (ANC) is expected to win a landslide victory is a sign of remarkable voter patience with a party that has not yet managed to deliver on its promise to provide jobs and homes for the impoverished majority. Rather than trying to unseat the ANC, opposition parties have set their sights...
...their teeth, demanding action before Memorial Day as a tribute to the victims in Littleton. Emerging from a Friday meeting with the President, in which they coordinated their gun-control strategy, House Democrats nearly climbed over one another to express their indignation. "How many people have to die before Congress can act?" demanded New York's Nita Lowey. Republicans are adamant that they will not be budged off their schedule. Isn't this how it all started...
...SPENDER Congress never met a bill it couldn't stuff with special spending programs. The emergency appropriations bill for NATO's attack on Yugoslavia is particularly porky. Some of the "emergencies" that seem the least urgent...
...Clinton urges Star Wars Lite missile-defense system; Congress approves...