Word: georgias
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pentagon this week will announce steps to eliminate leaks, including cutting back on both the number of security clearances and the number of classified documents. "If we don't do these things and do them soon," warns Senator Sam Nunn of Georgia, "we're going to have a lot more Walker cases in the future." But no one is suggesting the kind of drastic steps that would protect state secrets as securely as they are held, say, in the Soviet Union. Says John Martin, chief of the Justice Department's Division of Internal Security: "You've got to maintain...
Atlanta Mayor ANDREW YOUNG at Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Mass.: "As I ; drove back to my hometown in New Orleans (after graduation), I passed through the state of Georgia and I was afraid to stop, for Georgia was perhaps the worst place in the United States in those days for a young black man to be alone at night. And if anybody had ever said, 'Son, you better slow down in Georgia, you're going to represent Georgia in the Congress of the United States; you're going to be an Ambassador to the United Nations, named...
...many people, in both the U.S. and South Africa, who abhor apartheid question whether economic sanctions would work. "Unilateral American sanctions are totally ineffective," says Republican Newt Gingrich of Georgia. Gingrich was one of 35 Congressmen who recently asked President Reagan for stronger condemnation of South Africa, a move many saw as an attempt to nip last week's measures in the bud. Gingrich believes that the House bill would simply allow other countries to step in and fill the gap. There is evidence that France, Japan and Israel, which are already involved in the South African economy, would step...
...where they can be squeezed onto some reservation, so the lawyers and bankers can come in and get civilization started. Every bank in Texas ought to pay us a commission for the work we done. If we hadn't done it, all the bankers would still be back in Georgia, living on poke salad and turnip greens...
...leading antagonist of the MX was Senator Sam Nunn of Georgia, the ranking Democrat on the Armed Services Committee. Nunn and others have criticized the Government's plan to place the highly accurate ten-warhead missiles in existing Minuteman missile silos. Critics say that the immobile basing system makes the MX vulnerable, and a likely target for Soviet attack. Since March, Nunn has proposed limiting the number of silo-based MX's to 40, and last week he offered an amendment to the pending $302 billion defense authorization bill. When Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole realized that Nunn had enough...