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Jimmy Carter's favorite nose counter could hardly have been more correct. Last week the simmering dispute between the President and Capitol Hill broke into the open, with congressional members of Carter's own party leading the battle. Within three days Democrat-led committees in both chambers voted to load Administration proposals with more than $3.5 billion in extra money...
SPIRO AGNEW. Nixon revealed that he had been unwilling to rely solely on the recommendations of Attorney General Elliot Richardson after an investigation was begun of kickbacks paid by Maryland contractors to his Vice President. Nixon asked that Assistant Attorney General Henry Petersen, a Democrat, make his own investigation of the case. "There was no secret Richardson and Agnew didn't like each other. There was no secret that Richardson had ambitions to be Vice President or President in 1976, and earlier if possible." After Petersen concurred that the charges would lead to a recommendation of a prison sentence...
...Republican resurgence," exulted G.O.P. National Chairman Bill Brock. That was putting it too strongly, but Republicans around the country did have something to cheer about. In a special congressional by-election in Washington's Seattle area last week, State Senator Jack Cunningham, 46, stunned Democrat Marvin Burning, 47, by winning a handy 54.2% of the vote. That means the G.O.P. has won two out of three congressional races this, year; earlier, Republican Arlan Stangeland won in Minnesota, though Democrat Wyche Fowler prevailed in Georgia...
With beautiful camerawork, It's Raining shows how the well-trained, well-equipped army moved in against the regime, how its tanks and machine guns crushed any opposition U.P. supporters could raise. That summer, the largely Christian Democrat parliament had permitted the army to collect most of the arms of the civilian population, leaving the militants nothing but makeshift tools with which to resist. True to the actual history, Soto spares the audience none of the horror of a poorly-armed struggle against the tanks--he shows the militants' optimism and then their defeat, in the same unyielding detail...
Minnesota Democrat Hubert Humphrey and New Jersey Republican Clifford Case sponsored a Senate measure urging "sympathetic consideration" for Israeli co-production of the F16. New York Republican Jacob Javits and Idaho Democrat Frank Church introduced another, restating U.S. pledges to maintain Israel's military strength. The White House, worried by the possibility of a rash of similar resolutions in behalf of other nations, hastily sought a compromise. The Humphrey-Case measure was withdrawn, the Javits-Church toned down. Carter in return stoutly declared at a White House press conference that Israel was entitled to arms because of its "special...