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...bargainer: "There are very few negotiations that I've been in with as little leverage on our side." But the President ensured the delegation's maximum impact on the Vietnamese by sending over Americans whom they know well, including retired Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield and Mississippi Democrat G.V. ("Sonny") Montgomery, who led a House committee on a visit to Hanoi in 1975. After Woodcock reports back to Carter this week, the way will be clear for the State Department to begin negotiations with the Vietnamese...
...credit": 40% of a newly hired worker's wages, up to a maximum of $1,680. The House put a ceiling of $40,000 on the credit any one employer could take, thus effectively limiting the benefits to small businesses, which do not do the most hiring. Democrat Lloyd Bentsen of Texas came up with a compromise that the Long committee bought: give businessmen a choice of the higher investment credit or a modified jobs credit (25% of wages up to a maximum of $ 1,050 paid to some, not all, new workers, with no $40,000 ceiling...
...greatly increased taxes on Americans working abroad-and made both provisions retroactive on income earned earlier in the year. The Finance Committee voted to make those provisions apply only to income earned in 1977 and later years. "Retroactivity is against the spirit of the American Constitution," boomed New York Democrat Daniel P. Moynihan, who helped lead the move. People who are now filling out Form 1040 probably would be well advised not to claim the sick-pay exclusion: it is not at all certain that the Moynihan proposal will become law. Should it do so, taxpayers who have already sent...
McCarthy also encountered financial problems as an independent candidate. "People were afraid to be on the record as giving money to someone who wasn't a Democrat or a Republican," he said...
Many others were indignant that the leader of the bloody assault should be permitted to go free, however temporarily. Complained Senator Lloyd Bentsen, a Texas Democrat, "Khaalis was at liberty even before his hostages were home." A D.C. superior court judge called the releases "outrageous." But to many police and Justice Department officials, it seemed an appropriate price to pay to save the lives of the hostages...