Word: edward
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Despite their uneasiness over the Administration's activities in Nicaragua, most Congressmen believe that clandestine operations can play a legitimate role in protecting national security. "The adversary uses them all the time and a hell of a lot more than we do," says Edward Boland of Massachusetts, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. "I think they're a necessity." Indeed, members last year approved Reagan's request for secret funding to the contras as a way of interdicting Nicaraguan arms shipments to the Salvadoran rebels. But Boland attached an amendment barring...
After he led the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence in its vote to cut off covert military aid to Nicaragua last week, Committee Chairman Edward P. Boland, a Massachusetts Democrat, asked House Speaker Tip O'Neill, a fellow Bay Stater, to authorize a closed-door session for the eventual floor debate by the full House. O'Neill happily obliged. The next day, Massachusetts Congressman Edward J. Markey helped dynamite a six-day legislative logjam holding up a House vote on a nuclear-freeze resolution by persuading O'Neill to engineer a virtually unprecedented change in House...
...Capitol Hill. After Reagan nominated Kenneth Adelman to direct the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Massachusetts Democratic Senator Paul Tsongas provocatively suggested that Adelman's defeat would be "the Senate's equivalent of a nuclear freeze." The freeze movement was spearheaded in the Senate by Massachusetts Democrat Edward Kennedy and in the House by Markey. And after Reagan denounced public service jobs as "make work" programs, Boland successfully worked to retain them in the $4.6 billion jobs bill enacted in March. Gloats Markey: "Our delegation is like the 1927 Yankees-the greatest team of all time...
...Edward Lawson, 37, a bachelor and the head of his own consulting and entrepreneurial firm in San Francisco, liked to take long walks while on business in the San Diego area, often in the dead of night. As he strolled the deserted streets, no one ever bothered him except the police. Between March 1975 and January 1977, Lawson was stopped 15 times for vagrancy under a provision of the California penal code that requires an individual to provide "credible and reliable" identification to a police officer who has reason to be suspicious. Prosecuted twice and convicted once, Lawson brought suit...
What is it that scares the University and has caused Harvard's chief negotiator Edward Powers to run from "open negotiations" and to use the bully tactics...