Word: congressmen
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...South collected $1.14 and the West $1.20. One reason for the disparity is that many corporations have their headquarters in the Northeast and Midwest, from which they pay taxe based on their total national sales. But there are other factors, including the success of persuasive Southern and Western Congressmen in winning defense funds and pork-barrel projects for the folks back home...
...Panamanian students, outraged by the American flag flying in the heart of their country, rioted in the zone. With three American soldiers and 21 Panamanians dead, President Lyndon Johnson opened talks to revise the treaty. An agreement was reached in 1967, but its details were leaked, and conservative U.S. Congressmen protested so vociferously that L.B.J., up to his earlobes in Viet Nam, backed off. Before the treaty revision could be concluded, Torrijos in October 1968 overthrew the existing government and immediately spurned the accord. Making a new treaty his major issue, he abolished political parties, seized control of the press...
...have written to every Congressman, and I have talked to scores of Congressmen and Senators, as well as 20 Governors. I have said that welfare is the Middle East of U.S. politics. It is the most complicated political and economic problem I have ever dealt with. But the present system is so fraught with fraud and errors and antifamily incentives that we have a chance of moving...
...involves Congressmen who have accepted gifts of cash, trips, women-or all three-from agents of the South Korean government, and it is expected to produce Justice Department indictments of five former Representatives later this summer. But is the House Democratic leadership at the same time covering up its own long-stalled attack on the so-called Koreagate scandal? Countering such suspicions, Speaker Tip O'Neill and Majority Leader Jim Wright last week persuaded former Watergate Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski to lead the House ethics committee investigation into the whole affair...
That may be as tough as getting tape recordings from the White House. The key figure, South Korean Entrepreneur Tongsun Park, hastily moved from Washington to London last year after the first published reports that he had given some Congressmen up to $10,000 each. The ethics committee, headed by Georgia's John J. Flynt Jr., has been looking into Koreagate for almost ten months without noticeable progress. Further tarnishing the House's image, the committee's counsel, Philip Lacovara, 33, who was Jaworski's Watergate assistant, quit two weeks ago, claiming that Flynt...