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...used to hard liquor. Turning bitter, he charged that "I was not given a fair trial" by the House, and accused the members of "lynching" him. Protesting that "I know now what it feels like to sit on death row," Myers warned the members that their votes to expel him would have the same effect as "hitting the button if I were strapped into an electric chair." Few legislators were moved. The vote to expel Myers...
...graduate of Harvard Law School, Holtzman, 39, impressed constituents as a tough-questioning member of the House Judiciary Committee during its 1974 impeachment hearings on Richard Nixon. She was the principal sponsor of the three-year extension for ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment. She backed efforts to expel Nazi war criminals from the U.S. and helped expose the fraud in a New York City summer food program that led to 17 convictions...
...residents of Ajo, where the survivors were taken, are normally indifferent to the plight of aliens, but they collected money for the Salvadorans. The Legal Aid Society plans to go to court to foil any plans by the Immigration and Naturalization Service to expel them, and Arizona's Senator Dennis DeConcini asked the Administration to permit the aliens to live in the country that they had tried so desperately to make their home...
...would be tantamount to handing over the West Bank to the Palestine Liberation Organization. He complained of a "putsch atmosphere" created by civilian protesters against his government's policies. After Arab students at Israeli universities began wearing T shirts proclaiming their support of the P.L.O., Begin threatened to expel them. The students, as it happens, are Israeli citizens who enjoy the constitutional guarantees of free speech...
...England Journal of Medicine by Physiologist James White and Dr. Herman Froeb, examined the effects of smoking on 2,100 men and women. Within this group, nonsmokers who did not work in smoky environments came out best on tests of the lungs' ability to hold air and expel it. Those who had smoked more than 40 cigarettes a day for more than 20 years had the worst results. But nonsmokers who had worked for more than 20 years in smoke-filled areas had scores similar to those of light smokers (people who over two decades had smoked...