Word: hecklers
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...cover their rising costs, but for the first time in memory Congress does not seem so ready to swallow their sweet talk. With voters fuming over sky-high food prices, many Congressmen would just as soon see the bill never come to a vote. Says Massachusetts Republican Margaret Heckler, a member of the House Agriculture Committee: "Inflation is the nation's No. 1 enemy, and things just cannot stay the same for easy subsidies. The sugar bill represents the legislative process at its worst...
...Knesset's treatment of Carter, as it turned out, was much friendlier than that accorded Begin. Obstreperous deputies subjected the Premier to such prolonged heckling that at one time the Speaker had to plead: "Please, only one heckler at a time." Some hard-lining members of Begin's own Likud faction accused him of abandoning Israel's claims to the West Bank, while Communists shouted that the government was suppressing the Palestinians...
Throughout the uproar, Carter sat stonefaced. According to a White House aide, the President was dismayed by the lack of decorum on what was, in many respects, a formal state occasion. But Begin, who used to be quite a heckler himself when he was a deputy, seemed almost to relish the rowdiness as a proof of his repeated argument that his negotiating powers are limited by opposition in the Cabinet and Knesset...
Turner's manner appealed to the generally sympathetic audience, which ignored one heckler's interruptions...
...will be here forever!" Coen screams, and a few spectators hoot. Wilkinson takes the podium and is saying the KKK is basically a Christian organization when a white man yells, "You symbolize hatred! How can you call yourselves Christians?" Suddenly the crowd rolls forward as several Klansmen rush the heckler. The police grab him quickly. A local newspaperman is arrested too, for taking pictures of the arrest, and both prisoners are whisked off to jail...