Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...started as a gaudy circus. When the House Select Committee on Assassinations was formed two years ago to investigate once again the killings of President John Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr., Congressmen vied for the limelight and fought with their abrasive chief counsel, Richard Sprague, who quit within a year. But, to the surprise of its early critics, the committee disciplined itself and did some meticulous though costly work (nearly $5 million by the end of this year). As its public hearings wind down, the committee's sober findings are reinforcing long established official conclusions about the deaths...
Last month the committee in effect re-convicted James Earl Ray of stalking and slaying the civil rights leader in the spring of 1968. In the process, the Congressmen discredited the persistent theory that Ray did not act alone. Last week the committee turned to the Kennedy assassination and added credence to the main finding of the Warren Commission: Lee Harvey Oswald alone killed the President and wounded former Texas Governor John Connally...
...where conservatives tried to override Carter's first veto of a major bill, the $37 billion defense authorization that contained $1.9 billion for a nuclear aircraft carrier. Carter maintained that the carrier was too expensive, and that the money would be better spent on strengthening NATO forces. Conservative Congressmen disagreed, arguing that Carter was mostly concerned with building a tough-guy reputation by vetoing the measure. Charged New York Republican Jack Kemp: "The President's image guy, Gerald Rafshoon, has been running this...
...those concerns go a long way toward explaining the tractability of the Vietnamese government toward its former foe. As Premier Dong expressed it in an hour-long interview with the Congressmen: "The wind is behind us" in promoting closer Hanoi-Washington ties. Earlier, Dong had told an interviewer: "We have no interest whatsoever in creating problems detrimental to our country's reconstruction...
...time for arguing, soon had little to do but see the sights. Trouble was that in the new Viet Nam the sights were not what they used to be. "Hanoi is now a faded dowager of a city," cabled TIME Hong Kong Correspondent Richard Bernstein, who accompanied the Congressmen on their tour. "The old elegance and grace are still there in the wide, tree-lined boulevards and the colonial-era buildings, but the place is badly in need of some paint, some renewal, some energy. The city is calm, quiet and green, but also poor, drab and dull. Whatever improvement...