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Conservatives accuse Carter of betraying a longtime ally. New Hampshire Governor Meldrim Thomson Jr., chairman of the National Conservative Caucus, ordered flags of Taiwan lowered to half-staff over his statehouse. The American Conservative Union asked its members to protest to their Congressmen. Ronald Reagan, running hard for the 1980 G.O.P. presidential nomination, cabled Nationalist Chinese President Chiang Ching-kuo "to express my deep regret at the action that has been taken...
...elect Mickey Leland (D.-Tex.), one of the 32 freshmen congressmen here on a six day conference at the Institute of Politics, addressed the demonstrators, calling the rally and the boycott a "significant and just statement...
...Several congressmen said they were optimistic about the program. William E. Dannemeyer (R-Calif.). "It remains to be seen whether it will be well done," he said, adding he had one "overriding" question he wanted answered: How can the government spend more money than it takes...
...topics the congressmen will discuss with members of the Harvard faculty include tax policy, welfare reform, business regulation and urban policy
...task of removing the bodies from Guyana and embalming them was expensive, but the Government would not yet predict the total costs. The fact that U.S. taxpayers were bearing the cost upset at least two Congressmen, Illinois Republican Philip Crane and Rhode Island Democrat Edward Beard. They publicly protested the use of federal funds (unofficial estimates of the cost have run as high as $8 million) to transport and process the decayed remains. Said Crane: "Although the entire situation is deplorable, the responsibility to bring the loved ones back to the United States rests with the families, not the Federal...