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...favored a bill, attached as a rider to the continuing resolution, that would have overturned a Supreme Court decision and ordered the Government to stop all financial aid to any institution that discriminates in any manner. The Senate voted 92 to 4 to break a filibuster by Republican Orrin Hatch of Utah against the bill. Hatch then threatened to offer 1,000-odd amendments and demand a vote on each. Oregon Republican Bob Packwood, a prime shaper of the civil rights bill, reluctantly moved to kill his own legislation and clear the decks for the continuing resolution. The Senate agreed...
Four years later, there was an even more serious accident: three Soyuz crew men were found dead in their seats after a ruptured hatch allowed their oxygen to escape during an otherwise safe reentry...
Release of the documents, said Moon, "will show to the world that my prosecution was politically motivated and there was a criminal conspiracy by certain high government officials to 'get Reverend Moon.'" Senator Hatch promised to look into the matter, but Unification Church officials say they do not expect the Justice Department to release the documents...
...subsequent outcry about totalitarian executive-judicial cabals was repeated and intensified when Reverend Moon protested his treatment before the Hatch subcommittee on June 26--this time charges of racism were working for, not against, the religious community...
...opening remarks, Senator Hatch raised the central question to come out of the hearing. "And what are we to think," he asked rhetorically, "when the leader of an unpopular church who is definitely hated and despised by large groups of people, may be thrown in prison after the court refuses to recognize what some believe to be his and his church's constitutional rights...