Word: hillings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bills and cost $10 billion to $15 billion a year after it is fully implemented. It would not start until 1983, and then only if the Administration's hospital cost-containment bill was passed. "A serious disappointment," said Senator Ted Kennedy, the champion of comprehensive insurance on the Hill...
...peacetime revival of the draft is bitterly opposed as an infringement of freedom by such groups as the antiwar Friends Committee and the American Civil Liberties Union. Nonetheless, there is a growing feeling on Capitol Hill that the all-volunteer force is a failure, as long argued by Senator John C. Stennis, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee. Bills before Congress range from requiring only registration to reinstituting the old-fashioned draft. There is even talk of making women register. One other proposal would set up a "national service" program that would allow draftees to go into uniform...
Just as Carter finally conceded to himself the realities of congressional manipulation and started to make some headway on the Hill, it could be that after more than two years of training he is learning the ropes of world power. Nobody knows for sure the delicate mix of events and emotions that produced the peace agreement. But having the carrier Constellation on its way toward the Arabian Sea, hurrying weapons and technicians to North Yemen and backing up his words of resolve with suggestions of further armed American presence surely helped more than those sermons on human rights...
...John Cairns, director of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund in Mill Hill, London, addressed about 250 people yesterday in the first part of a three-lecture series, "Some Facets of the Cancer Problem...
...first of their nationally prominent rivals on the Spring trip. The southern swing matches do not count for the team's record, but Felske feels the rugged competition, against a host of top-ranked schools, will prime his squad for the rigors ahead. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Duke and the University of Virginia could all crack the nation's Top 20 this year...