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More anger greeted State Department representatives when they appeared before the House Foreign Affairs Committee to support a sudden new request for security funds at U.S. embassies around the world. Democratic Congressmen accused the Administration of belatedly seeking the money as an attempt to shift blame for the lax security in Beirut to Congress. They were upset too by Under Secretary of State Ronald Spiers' contention that the $366 million sought by the department was not really needed and that $110 million was all that could be spent this year. Committee Chairman Dante Fascell, a Florida Democrat, called this...
After returning to the States, Steiner wrote to 22 congressmen and leading newspapers about his findings in Nicaragua--over and above the group's letter--and criticized current U.S. policy. Along with the letter he sent a manual that he obtained in Nicaragua. The book let presented in cartoon form instructions on how to destroy farms and burn books, among other acts of sabotage. According to Steiner, sources in Nicaragua said the manual could be traced...
...manicured acres in suburban Bethesda, Md., the Burning Tree Club counts among its members and honorary members Vice President George Bush, Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger and House Speaker Tip O'Neill. For 62 years the club has been the exclusive golf preserve of Presidents, Cabinet members, Congressmen and corporate chiefs. So long as they were male, that is. Women have never been admitted as members, guests or even maids. Last week Montgomery County Circuit Judge Irma Raker ruled that until Burning Tree begins admitting women, it can no longer enjoy a special exemption under which most...
...Only one of the state's 11 Congressmen, Rep Silvio O. Conte (R-Pittsfield) is a Republican. With two exceptions, no Republican has won a Congressional election in the state for nearly a decade...
...ranking officers and chose Akhromeyev, Ogarkov's longtime deputy and a former tank commander, as his replacement. Like Ogarkov, the new Chief of Staff represents a younger generation of better-educated officers who, in the words of a Washington analyst, are "not frightened by computers and technology." U.S. Congressmen who met Akhromeyev in Moscow last year describe him as "a tough, hard-nosed, thoroughly professional officer, who was clearly the man in charge...