Word: congressed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Russians, anxious to build European Communist support for the world party conference scheduled for this May, the incident offers proof of Chinese intransigence, and may indeed further Moscow's hopes of expelling the Chinese from the world movement. For Chairman Mao, who plans to convoke the Ninth Congress of the Chinese Communist Party this spring, the incident is being manipulated to prove that China is truly surrounded by foes and that national unity is now a necessity as never before. For the rest of the world, any lingering doubts about the depth of Sino-Soviet antagonism were washed away...
...reportedly so depressed after one leadership quarrel that he shot himself. The two men also appealed to Cairo and Algiers to send mediators to settle the dispute. They arrived last week and apparently had some effect. Both sides agreed to air their argument in an emergency party congress, which Baathist leaders insisted be held "in an atmosphere of complete freedom"-in other words, with no show of military force...
...council and poking fun at Annie Wauneka, Mitchell's office backed up its embattled attorney and went to court to fight the ouster order. Ten dissident Indians joined the suit, and the tribal council was left in an untenable position no matter who won. Since 1924, when Congress decided that American Indians are U.S. citizens, Navajos and other Indians have been both tribal citizens and Americans. Now their rights as members of each group had been thrust into conflict. To oust Mitchell would leave legal aid agencies powerless to help individual Indians fight tribal governments for their rights...
...stop. Since December, the money supply has not grown at all, and bankers cannot meet the increasing demand for loans. Martin's foes were jubilant when the $42,500-a-year chairman recently confessed to a three-year "heritage of errors" in economic policymaking by the board, Congress and the Administration...
...smoking-and-health issue is heating up as time draws near for Congress to modify, extend, or simply drop key parts of the 1965 cigarette-labeling act, which requires cigarette packs to bear a health warning. One provision, which bars Government agencies from imposing their own restrictions on cigarette advertising, will expire on June 30. Last month the Federal Communications Commission served notice that it will seek a total blackout of cigarette advertising on radio and TV if the provision is allowed to expire...