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...Chairman William J. Casey, formerly head of the Securities and Exchange Commission and Under Secretary of State, complains that the Jackson-Stevenson restriction would hinder the bank's ability to compete in a fast-moving global credit market where time is money. The House has yet to draft an Ex-Im bill, but opposition to the bank's recent policies is even stronger there than in the Senate...
Having to testify, he said, would hinder his ability to give "candid and uninhibited" advice to Nixon in private. So the committee postponed the hearings, to the disappointment of members who had hoped to ask Rush what led the President to predict recently a late-1974 pickup in national production and a downturn in inflation...
...soul and body. Christians, argues Ramsey, thus properly dread death, and in their care for the sick wisely laid the foundations of Western medicine. Nowadays, Ramsey says, "true humanism" still depends on a "dread of death." Romantically investing death with a bogus dignity, he suggests, may in fact hinder care for the dying by establishing a new set of illusions...
Strauch reportedly has set a rigorous work-load for the committee, but also has been able to keep the committee from any serious splits of opinion that might hinder their work. In fact, the only incident which has provoked a major split thus far is the question of increasing the size of the college to accommodate more women. The students on the committee all say they oppose any such move because of the already strained housing and educational resources for undergraduates. All the other members of the committee have at least expressed a willingness to consider the size increase. Most...
...House aides had welcomed the not guilty verdicts for Mitchell and Stans as evidence that Dean was no longer credible. Dean was one of 59 witnesses at the trial of the former Cabinet members. Both had been charged with nine counts of perjury, obstruction of justice and conspiracy to hinder an investigation of Financier Robert Vesco's tangled affairs in exchange for a secret...