Word: congressmen
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About 150 student constituents, former campaign workers and political aficionados gathered last night to drink beer and eat pretzels with the 25 newly elected congressmen currently attending the congressional training seminar at the Institute of Politics...
...students attending the receptions--held at Quincy and Leverett Houses, Phillips Brooks House and the Freshman Union--came predominantly from the congressmen's home districts...
Martha Gershun '78, staff assistant to the coordinator of the conference, said yesterday that the Institute held the receptions to provide a service to both congressmen and students, by allowing them to discuss areas of mutual concern...
Describing Kim as "a dynamite witness," a U.S. official told TIME: "He knows all about the movement of money to Congressmen. He handled some of the cash himself. There's a myriad of potential law violations in what he's talking about." Because of the sensitivity of Kim's information, Attorney General Edward Levi ordered the FBI to withhold information about his disclosures. Said a high Justice Department official: "It's a real sticky mess...
Until Kim's defection, the FBI probe of the scandal was virtually stalled. Businessman Tongsun Park, who entertained lavishly in Washington and doled out KCIA bribe money to a score of Congressmen, had fled the country to avoid being called before a federal grand jury. Comely Suzi Thomson, who regularly gave intimate parties at which Kim and other KCIA agents cemented relationships with influential Americans, had been a balky witness...