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This week Congressman Thomas Foglietta, who was beaten up by police when he accompanied Kim Dae Jung to Seoul on his return from exile in the U.S. two years ago, will introduce a bill calling for economic sanctions against South Korea unless it demonstrates progress in moving toward democracy. Foglietta, a Democrat, was forced to strip out some of the toughest measures, including the denial of commercial landing rights for South Korean airlines, when it became clear that the bill as it read stood virtually no chance of passage. But the amended bill would still commit the U.S. to voting...
...along. He feared for his safety, he said, and preferred to proceed through normal immigration channels. After a heated discussion, the guards slammed Kim into an elevator and took him into custody. Several protesting Americans were shoved and punched. Among them: Democratic Congressmen Edward Feighan of Ohio and Thomas Foglietta of Pennsylvania, and Patt Derian, Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights in the Carter Administration. Said Foglietta: "It was a disgraceful exhibition of force and brutality...
House Candidates James Jones, D., Okla., $216,599 Tom Foglietta, D., Pa., $151,970 John Dingell, D., Miss., $129,750 Joseph Addabbo, D., N. Y., $127,530 Gerald Kleczka...
California Democrat Tom Lantos, along with fellow Democrats Thomas Foglietta of Pennsylvania and Patricia Schroeder of Colorado, circulated a petition on Capitol Hill protesting the experiments as a "shocking waste of animal lives and taxpayer monies." A Washington radio station repeatedly broadcast Weinberger's office phone number so that listeners could call up to complain. After reading about the lab in his morning newspaper, Weinberger, who owns a male collie named Kilty, issued a terse one-line statement banning all Department of Defense dog shootings. Next a presumably weary Weinberger ordered a broad review of the Pentagon...
...Abscam scandal threatens to remove a few incumbents from heretofore safe seats. Democrat Michael ("Ozzie") Myers of Philadelphia, who was expelled from the House after his Abscam bribery conviction, is expected to lose to Tom Foglietta, a former G.O.P. city councilman who is running as an independent. South Carolina Congressman John Jenrette, also convicted in Abscam, is depending on his popularity among rural blacks to win his tight race against Republican Lawyer John Napier...