Word: congressmen
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...admirable and largely unappreciated degree, the CIA has managed to preserve a tradition of intellectual freedom. During the McCarthy period in the '50s, when red-baiting Congressmen were able to drum out of the State Department Foreign Service officers who were insufficiently passionate in their anticommunism, the agency used its special claim to secrecy to make itself a sanctuary for independent-minded experts...
...oneself in so much tanklike armor that one barely feels the bump of the riffraff undertire. But now that dream is under attack, according to an organization calling itself the Coalition for Vehicle Choice. According to the coalition, a collection of the usual well- meaning but misguided dupes, liberals, Congressmen, pessimists and wimps is threatening to make us all drive weenie cars by raising the required gas mileage of new autos...
...pair of Waspy Texans who did oil business with the Arabs before they went into politics, had demonstrated dangerous anti-Israeli inclinations and needed to be shown that they could not push Israel or the Jews around. Lobbyists also threatened to turn Jewish financial contributors and voters against recalcitrant Congressmen. Bush, already aware of the arguments of the campaign, was made even more furious by wire reports of statements by Israel's Housing Minister, Ariel Sharon, that Bush, in pursuing peace, had fallen into "an Arab trap...
...stirrings for change from within the military establishment. Two years ago, the Pentagon commissioned a study that concluded that the antigay policy was irrational. The report, which never got beyond draft form, was rejected as "technically flawed" and for exceeding its authority, but the results were leaked by sympathetic Congressmen. A second report, which was never submitted, found that gay soldiers were less likely to drink, take drugs, or have disciplinary problems than nongay soldiers...
...Congressmen keep on speechifying for hire? The House now prohibits members from pocketing such fees, and the Senate is on the verge of adopting a similar ban, but legislators won't clam up. They have found a censure-free use for the money: donate it to home-district charities. Democrat Dan Rostenkowski of Illinois is a master at sharing the largesse, using it for inner-city children's programs, among other good works...