Word: counts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Administration count indicates that 29 Senators are either against the pact or leaning that way-just five short of the number needed to sink it. Moreover, among the 35 Senators expected to favor the treaty, at least eight are shaky. Senate supporters fume that the White House has not begun to match the lobbying effort of the opposition...
Richard M. Wyner '79, an Adams House representative, said after the meeting he introduced his call for a quorum count because "a majority of the representatives were not here and I didn't think it was proper to proceed...
...Administration support, has served notice that it will not be so generous. The Teamsters also are greatly concerned with maintaining their pension funds. It may help that the Administration has ruled that any increased employer contributions necessary to maintain pensions and some medical benefits at existing levels will not count against the 7% guideline...
Whether Carter will prevail in the end is uncertain, but he can count on a number of strong allies, including Frank Church, the next chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Praising Carter for having "cut the Gordian knot," Church declared: "His decision to recognize China finally brings American policy into line with Asian realities." Many Senators brushed aside as unimportant Carter's failure to consult them. Said Maine Democrat Edmund Muskie: "We have been committed to normalization for six years, and everyone in Congress must have been aware that this dialogue was going on." Among other supporters of Carter...
Despite the reaction of shock and anger, the Nationalists have long known that the change was coming. Expelled from the U.N. to make room for Peking's delegation in 1971, Taiwan last week could count only a sad roster of 22 foreign countries that still recognize its government. Nearly 50 had switched to Peking. Among the holdouts, only Saudi Arabia carries weight internationally...