Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recent past, efforts to cut burdgeoning federal budget deficits led the Reagan Administration and many congressmen to make ends meet by reducing funds for scientific research...
...winning the battle, the nation's colleges and universities may have lost the war. Senators and Congressmen interviewed last week, for example, expressed negative feelings toward "the higher education lobby." It is apparent that in resorting to mundane and "dirty" tactics on Capitol Hill, American colleges and universities have lost much of the credibility that lies at the heart of their influence with the nation's legislators and indeed with the people...
...Many Congressmen, however, did not want to spend sleepless nights worrying about the U.S. response. "What we're seeing down the road is the U.S. being sucked into this violent and savage war," predicted Democratic Senator James Sasser of Tennessee. Said Republican Senator Richard Lugar of Indiana: "The environment surrounding our Navy in the Persian Gulf is as dangerous as the exposure of our Marines in Beirut." Those fears were hardly allayed when Congress learned that U.S. ships had twice escorted Kuwaiti vessels, once in February and once last week. In both cases, Kuwaiti merchant ships delivered U.S.-manufactured...
What bothered many Congressmen was that the Administration seemed to be using the military to make a symbolic diplomatic statement. Deploying sailors as peace enforcers in the gulf revived memories of the ill-conceived deployment of Marines in Beirut, which left 241 servicemen dead after a surprise truck bombing. Although it has never fought a declared war, the Reagan Administration has witnessed the loss of at least 331 servicemen since it took office...
...process begins again this week as klieg lights illuminate the solemn faces of 15 Congressmen and eleven Senators seated on a two-tiered dais draped in burgundy bunting, at the opening of a four-month public exploration of the Iran-contra affair. This is the same Senate Caucus Room where television cameras revealed Senator Joseph McCarthy as a snarling bully. It is where Richard Nixon's closest aides told lies in a vain effort to support the President's Watergate crimes...