Word: congressman
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...Farrakhan. These black men resented being told what to think and whom to follow. At first Earl Vaughn Jr., 41, who works in New York City as a manager for the transportation system, wasn't sure he would attend. Then he read a newspaper report in which black conservative Congressman Gary Franks, a Republican from Connecticut, compared the Million Man March to a Ku Klux Klan rally. It made Vaughn so angry, he jumped into his Lexus Sunday night and drove to Washington. Terry Bankston, director of fund development for the National Black MBA Association in Chicago, shares Vaughn...
...detractors to James Watt, Ronald Reagan's steel-eyed Interior Secretary. Some of Hansen's proposals in Congress, like opening up lands near Bryce Canyon National Park, have gone nowhere at all. But as the new chairman of the National Parks, Forests and Lands Subcommittee, the eight-term Congressman, who has been trying for years to reduce federal lands, has thwarted environmentalists hoping to designate 5.7 million acres of Utah as wilderness. A Hansen-sponsored bill that was adopted by his committee in August would limit the new wilderness to 1.8 million acres. It would keep much of that land...
...Flanagan last week found the docility wearing off when they returned to their districts. In Chicago outraged seniors parked a steamroller in front of Flanagan's office to symbolize G.O.P. efforts to rush the cuts through Congress. In Connecticut, an elderly caller to a talk-radio show gave Republican Congressman Christopher Shays an earful. Asked the caller: "Why can every other civilized country take care of its senior citizens without all these changes and hassles...
EXPECTING. SUSAN MOLINARI, 37, G.O.P. Congresswoman of New York, and her husband BILL PAXON, 41, G.O.P. Congressman of New York; their first child...
Prominent black leaders supporting the march include Jesse Jackson, former NAACP head Benjamin Chavis and D.C. Mayor Marion Barry. Many oppose it, including Congressman John L. Lewis; Mary Frances Berry, chairperson of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights; and Michael Meyers of the New York Civil Rights Coalition. As Berry put it this week: "I do not trust Louis Farrakhan and Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. to lead us to the Promised Land...