Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...those fact-finding junkets that send conscientious Congressmen to the Great Wall of China, the Pyramids, the Louvre. Or, in the case of Kansas Senator Robert Dole, en route to a United Nations food conference in Rome, to the village of Castel D'Aiano near Bologna, where he hoisted one or two with some townsmen. Dole's visit was not so much a junket as a sentimental journey. It was at Castel D'Aiano 34 years ago that the Senator, then a young infantry officer, led an attack across the Po River. He was wounded by enemy...
Western analysts were surprised by the timing of the harassment of the Knights and Hann. It came during a delicate phase of the SALT negotiations, a record rate of Jewish emigration and a visit to Moscow by a group of U.S. Congressmen that ended last week, and just before the dramatic spy-dissidents swap. But foreign correspondents in Moscow have long been the targets of petty, and occasionally serious, persecution. Some have been roughed up by police, subjected to threatening interrogation, and accused of working for the CIA. Others have been targets of whispered charges of debauchery and homosexuality. Last...
Student organizers called on demonstrators to help lobby congressmen while others, including Robert Nozick, professor of Philosophy, told students to stand up for their "moral rights...
Richard C. Hunter, director of the Department of Defense's manpower office, said yesterday support in Congress for registration is coming from a group of Congressmen "who were the hawks in Vietnam, didn't want to provide amnesty, and didn't want to end the draft in the first place...
...though desirable, are politically unfeasible. The failure of Carter's 1977 energy proposals and the imminent watering-down if not complete destruction of his windfall tax proposals serve as ample evidence that the strong oil lobby within Congress can effectively block progressive energy measures. Voters must begin to pressure congressmen to pull away from the oil lobby...