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Questions about Williams' finances have been raised before Abscam. During his 1976 senatorial campaign, he was criticized for accepting some $28,000 from the banking and securities industries just before a Senate vote on securities legislation. Some observers feel that Williams, who has bought a Georgetown house valued at nearly $375,000, might be living beyond his means. Just last month he let it be known that he was thinking of running for Governor...
...Georgetown University, the administration announced a 12 per cent tuition increase to $4970. Room and board costs, and other fees, are not included in that total...
...Georgetown speech was cleverly crafted, occasionally eloquent, often contradictory and at points quite weak. Kennedy rightfully blamed Carter for seeming to want to fight in the Persian Gulf rather than take the necessary strong domestic actions that would curb the nation's dependence on foreign oil. He pointed out that nothing was done-or said-about Afghanistan until the Soviets actually invaded. He said it was Carter's appearance of weakness that encouraged Soviet aggression. Yet at the same time as he chided the President for his proposals to strengthen the U.S., Kennedy approvingly quoted Theodore Roosevelt...
Despite the eloquence of his Georgetown speech, Senator Edward Kennedy occasionally still has some difficulty in articulating his views...
...undesirable. The boycott may help create even more of a cold war climate in the U.S.S.R.; Soviet leaders may exploit the atmosphere, as they have in the past, conjuring up socialist fervor to counter the threat from the West. It is also possible, predicts Dimitri Simes, an analyst at Georgetown University's Center for Strategic and International Studies, that the Kremlin will use alienation from the West to justify greater repression and internal control...