Word: drinan
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...from Utah, said it was the current committee's fault that "they gave to America, to the seven- and eight-year-olds, the knowledge or raised the question of what oral sex is, what telephone sex is and what you can do with a cigar sexually." And Father Robert Drinan, the ultraliberal former member from Massachusetts, predicted that the committee would "go down in the history books as one that was dominated by vindictiveness and by vengeance and by partisanship." Representative Howard Coble of North Carolina, who sometimes sounds like he's still got a place on Mayberry R.F.D., reacted...
...American Jewish Congress's 50th Anniversary Celebration of the Commission on Law and Social Action with a round table discussion at the new U.S. Federal Courthouse. The talk is moderated by former MA governer Michael Dukakis, and he'll be joined by Representative Barney Frank (D-Mass.), Robert Drinan, Professor John Kenneth Galbraith and others. 2 to 8 p.m., Federal Courthouse, Northern Ave., Boston, 457-8888, FREE...
...laundry list of more important concerns. But for the House Judiciary Committee, it?s still the most pressing matter in America -? as Monday?s strange parade of legal scholars and historians bore witness to. And what did luminaries such as Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and Watergate veteran Rev. Robert Drinan largely agree on? That you can?t, or shouldn?t, censure the President. It?s impeachment or nothing. And that puts the rabidly pro-impeachment GOP majority on the committee on a crash course with public opinion...
...KASTENMEIER headed a National Commission on Judicial Discipline and Removal. California's JEROME WALDIE served on the National Labor Relations Board. JOHN SEIBERLING taught law at the University of Akron. "Our results were clearly a bipartisan effort," he says. "I don't detect any of that today." And ROBERT DRINAN of Massachusetts teaches law at Georgetown University. "I don't think there's much impeachable here," he says of the current scandal. "I almost resent these people on this committee now, trying to piggyback on the dignity of the Rodino committee." Among members who turned to the practice...
Despite the presence of television cameras, Rep. Robert Drinan (D-Mass.) and John Kerry of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Election Commission clerks refused to register about 30 students at the "register-in" held Oct. 8. The clerks referred the students to the Board of Election Commissioners, saying that people who are not self-supporting must have an appeal hearing...