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Impacts of Communications Technology--Rep. Charles Rose (D-N.C.), Rm. 280, Kennedy School...
...economic aid in 1977 and 1978 were nevertheless added to a total of more than $300 million that Nicaragua has received from the U.S. government since the second World War. The reason was that some of Somoza's powerful friends in Congress, notably Representatives Charles Wilson (D-Tex.) and John Murphy (D-N.Y.), Somoza's roommate at West Point, threatened to slash foreign aid to several countries if our trusted anti-Communist ally in Nicaragua was slighted. That annual shipment of $12 million has now been suspended, but $30 million in bilateral economic assistance already approved will...
...votes in the convention, and whether the convention should refuse to propose an amendment it was summoned to consider. Although the Constitution never mentions these questions, there is no reason to expect Congress will meet serious opposition to an act outlining a convention's procedural details. Senator Sam Ervin (D-N.C.) proposed and the Senate adopted just such a bill twice already, in 1971 and 1973, but the House never approved it. And there are legal precedents applicable to each question--for example, it seems probable a convention would contain one delegate from each congressional district and two elected...
Lily Tomlin, George Carlin, Steve Martin and four of the original Saturday Night Live "Not for Prime Time Players" are on the list, along with such luminaries as actress Jane Fonda, Sens. Bill Bradley (D-N.J.) and Edward M. Kennedy '54, and broadcaster Walter Cronkite...
...Senate passed the College Opportunity Act in August by a wide 68-14 margin, but Rep. Jim Delaney (D-N.Y.) has refused to let the bill, called the Middle-Income Assistance Act in the House, out of the Rules Committee which he chairs. An aide to the Education Subcommittee of the Senate human resources committee says Delaney is a supporter of tax credits and fears the death of the tax credit plan if the Opportunity Act makes it through Congress...