Word: congresses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WASHINGTON--Two key members of Congress yesterday criticized President Carter's Three Mile Island commission for failing to recommend a moratorium on the construction of nuclear power plants...
Baker's popularity did not just grow from the toothy grin and Southern twang he carries in his political make-up bag. He inherited the power to attract followers from his father, who served six terms in Congress and his mother, who took the seat for awhile after the elder Baker's death. And when Howard Baker decided to get married he selected Joy Dirksen, a blonde midwesterner and daughter of the Senate Republican leader, Everett Dirksen of Illinois. Besides his political connections, Baker is a Republican, and eastern Tennessee is almost all Republican. And Presbyterian--just like Baker...
Baker's late start, however is more a measure of his strength than of his weakness, his supporters say. "They've all been campaigning for a year now and Dad has had a job. Sure he's got a late start but he's in tune with Congress everyday," she added. And indeed his extensive Washington experience could well be a strong asset in 1980 after the failures of outsider Jimmy Carter. Baker will have a tough time in the midwest and the west considering the host of Republican contenders from that area such as Rep. John Anderson...
...devastation in Cambodia makes it imperative that the United States not give up its well-intentioned relief efforts in the face of the Heng Samrin regime's rhetoric. Carter and Congress must do everything possible to get the relief through and to alert a sadly indifferent world to the carnage that has taken place and to the plight of the millions who are still living--but just barely--in a ruined Cambodia...
Shuping Coapage, a delegate of the African National Congress, told the voters that grassroots work across the world is needed to defeat apartheid...