Word: congressed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...confused but jubilant Viet Nam Moratorium Committee staff in Washington. Workers there cheerfully conceded that they had little hope of coordinating the burgeoning affair. While focused on college campuses (see EDUCATION), the protest was gaining the support of religious and civil rights groups, radicals and wealthy liberals, politicians in Congress and in many communities. The forces were mainly those that had rallied behind the presidential candidacies of Senators Eugene McCarthy and Robert Kennedy a year...
...campuses, those tactics on Oct. 15 will vary widely. The Congress itself has been urged to participate by two dozen Democratic Senators and Representatives, who announced that they will boycott legislative business on Capitol Hill that day. They include such war critics as Senators George McGovern, Edward Kennedy, Edmund Muskie and William Fulbright. Their idea has spread so widely that there is some doubt whether the Senate will be able to collect a quorum on M-Day. The Republican Party's liberal Ripon Society is backing the moratorium. At the community level, Buffalo Mayor Frank A. Sedita has proclaimed...
...Congress has slashed foreign aid to the lowest level in two decades. With only $3.3 billion, or .38% of its gross national product devoted to aid, the U.S. ranks a poor seventh in effort, though it remains far in front in total flow of aid (see chart). Because businessmen are proving more venturesome than bureaucrats, the worldwide decline in aid has been more than offset by rising private investment. The trouble is that private capital goes mainly to countries rich in oil and minerals, where help is not urgently needed...
...countries increase their aid to seven-tenths of one percent of their gross national product in five years. In the U.S., that would mean an annual foreign aid outlay of $8 billion by 1975. Even if Nixon seconded that motion, which is virtually unthinkable, there is no chance that Congress would go along...
White Hunter Patrick Hemingway of Kenya, visiting the Soviet Union for the Ninth International Congress of Game Management, was astonished to find that his name made him the center of attention. "I never thought my father was so popular in Russia," Patrick said, as reporters and their interpreters queued up. "I'd like to know whether it was because of his talent as a writer or his human qualities." Young Hemingway, whose motto is "to shoot, to write, and to tell the truth," was taken hunting by his hosts, and missed a long shot...