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Many said as much. Wayne Aspinall, former Chairman of the House Interior Committee, said long before the current crunch, for instance, that he was "truly frightened by the potential conflict between pro-Israel sentiment in this country and our increasing reliance on Arab oil. I believe the U.S. is about to be caught in a Middle Eastern power play...
...leaders of the task force plan to seek quick assurance that Petersen-or any new special prosecutor-is genuinely determined to follow any trail. Within the next two weeks, one senior attorney says privately, the task force will "send a crunch decision" to Petersen or whoever is the new special prosecutor that Nixon has promised to name this week. They intend to hand up evidence involving a "sensitive area" that will force the new prosecutor to make good or else. If whoever is in charge by then fails that test, mass resignations will surely follow...
Hall Patrol. In the crunch last week, the Armed Forces and their Senate allies, who were led by Washington Democrat Henry ("Scoop") Jackson, mounted a remarkable goal-line stand. Their toughest test was Majority Leader Mike Mansfield's amendment to cut the 471,000 U.S. land-based troops stationed abroad by 40% over the next three years. To nearly everyone's surprise, the Senate, in a technical vote on the language of the amendment, approved the measure by a vote of 49 to 46. It was five hours later before the actual vote on the amendment itself took...
...economic crunch is hitting Harvard Student Agencies (HSA) this fall as the agencies dealing with student services are recording significantly decreased rentals...
Young said that the housing crunch prevented the appointment of a greater number of freshman advisers...