Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...CONG DUC speaks English haltingly, and he sometimes verges on seeming embarrassed at taking up his listeners' time--as though everything he has to say was obvious long ago, or as though he has said it many times before. He is 39, a social-democrat, the son of a rich canton chief killed by insurgents in 1954, the nephew of the archbishop of Saigon, the former chairman of the anti-corruption and information committees of the House of Representatives of the Republic of Vietnam. He founded, published and edited the Saigon newspaper Tin Sang. He was the chairman of South...
Even before Ford moved on tariffs, Senators Henry Jackson and Edward Kennedy had sponsored a Senate resolution to postpone the tariff increase for 60 days; in the meantime Congress, if it has the will, would be able to draft its own energy-saving program. In the House, Pennsylvania Democrat William Green offered a similar motion to defer the hike for 90 days, which the House Ways and Means Committee promptly voted, linking the deferral to an increase in the federal debt limit to $531 billion...
...Democratic majority became precisely 2 to 1 last week when Oklahoma Democrat John Jarmon, an archconservative, announced that he was outraged by the ousting of committee chairmen and was joining the Republican Party. That makes the House division 290 Democrats to 145 Republicans...
Full Analysis. There was no lack of Democratic candidates for the committee. Many looked on it as a way to enhance their own reputations, bearing out some of the worst fears of conservatives like Democrat John C. Stennis of Mississippi, who lamented: "The bird is out of the cage and gone." Stennis and some other Senators fear that a careless investigation may further damage the morale of the intelligence agencies, expose secrets, and even endanger undercover agents. Said he: "This is not comparable to Watergate. An agency of this kind can be destroyed." But Mansfield promised that the committee would...
...DIRECT. The U.S. could cut its oil imports by the goal of 1 million bbl. a day-or 5.5% of consumption-merely by printing coupons limiting what motorists can buy. Thus rationing, says one of its Senate advocates, Colorado Democrat Floyd Haskell, would have "an immediate conservation effect...