Word: congressman
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...governments agreed that the two labs should share credit and split the royalties generated by patented AIDS blood tests. But doubts remained. A lengthy investigation in 1989 by the Chicago Tribune raised once again the possibility that Gallo had stolen his competitor's work and prompted Michigan Congressman John Dingell to call upon the NIH to investigate Gallo for possible misconduct...
...Savage had a change of heart? Just a year ago, during a bitter primary fight, the Democratic Congressman from Chicago ripped into opponent Mel Reynolds for accepting "Jewish money." How strange, then, that invitations to last week's $500-a-head "Gus Savage for Congress" fund raiser in Washington went to some of the same organizations he had vowed to "run back to Highland Park where you came from." What's more, the invitations carried the name of House Speaker Tom Foley, who had professed to be "disturbed" by Savage's inflammatory campaign rhetoric. The Speaker didn't turn...
...with this shortfall, ranging from canceling the ATF and replacing it with an upgraded (but still not stealthy) version of the existing F-15s to ordering only a handful of ATFs and deploying them in a small force of killer fighters: "silver bullets" in the jargon of the field. Congressman Les Aspin, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, had earlier put forward a compromise that would continue research on the ATF but hold off on procurement, staying for now with...
...Congressman Robert Dornan, a California Republican, is avidly pushing a proposal he feels would benefit both the stricken Kuwaiti economy and the thousands of Vietnamese languishing in camps all over southeast Asia. "The Vietnamese refugees," wrote Dornan to the Emir of Kuwait, "are people in need of a country. Kuwait, on the other hand, is a country in need of / people." Dornan believes that Kuwait's labor pool should not be replenished by Palestinians and Yemenis who, he says, "betrayed their Arab brothers by cheering Saddam's invasion." Dornan, whose Orange County constituency has the largest concentration of Vietnamese...
...SPONSOR: Congressman Ralph Regula, Republican of Ohio...