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...scene with red paint. Congress was the veterans' chief target. As John Kerry, leader of Dewey Canyon III, won warm applause for his testimony before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations (see box, following page), knots of other veterans buttonholed Senators and Representatives. One constituent of Brooklyn Democrat John Rooney complained: "He gerrymandered me out of his district on the spot." Another group found itself riding the Senate subway with Republican Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, a "hot" hawk, in veterans' parlance. "Boys, we all want this war to end, but we want...
Revelations. Still the most vocal of the Democrats was the man who touched off the controversy, House Majority Leader Hale Boggs of Louisiana. Three weeks ago, Boggs accused the bureau of wiretapping. Last week, having promised corroborating evidence, Boggs steamed into the fray. On the House floor he insisted during an impassioned, hour-long speech that his contention was true and went on to intimate that electronic surveillance devices may have been used against other Administration critics, among them former Senator Wayne Morse of Oregon, Republican Senator Charles Percy of Illinois and Democrat Birch Bayh of Indiana...
Still, help may be forthcoming from the Federal Government. In answer to President Nixon's broad proposals for welfare reform, the House Ways and Means Committee, headed by Democrat Wilbur Mills, is currently preparing a $4.2 billion welfare package. It would freeze state and local "adult" welfare costs (aid to aged, blind and disabled) at 90% of their present level or lower. The Governors and mayors hope that a similar measure will be passed to cut costs on the massive Aid to Families with Dependent Children program. Federal funds would take up further increases in costs, giving the staggering...
Nearly 60 U.S. Senators co-sponsored a resolution offered by Wisconsin Democrat Gaylord Nelson that proposed an annual Earth Week. On a swing through the country, Nelson criticized General Motors Chairman James M. Roche, who had lambasted environmentalists for "irresponsible criticism" and unfairly harassing industry. "Those are strong words," commented Nelson, "coming from the head of a company which, with the other U.S. automakers, was charged by the Government with engaging for 15 years in a conspiracy not to compete in the development of pollution-control devices for the automobile." (The case ended in a consent decree, with the companies...
That is a rather sticky parallel. Although Boggs has yet to produce evidence that his or any other Congressman's phone was ever tapped, reports surfaced last week that the bureau had monitored conversations and telephone calls between Representative John Dowdy, a Texas Democrat, and an FBI informer. The recorded conversations were used to indict Dowdy on March 30 for allegedly accepting $25,000 in a bribery conspiracy. This would seem to contradict the bureau's claim that it has never tapped a congressional phone. Technically, though, the FBI has a case: a Justice Department spokesman noted that...