Word: javitses
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But finding funds just to keep the place open and buy a few books was a more immediate concern to most librarians. Delegates were united in a call to reapportion library funding from towns and cities to the Federal Government, which now pays only 5% of national library costs. A...
On the Senate floor, Republican Jacob Javits of New York and Democrat Claiborne Pell of Rhode Island urged that the U.S. and other countries establish a huge airlift of food and medicine into Cambodia if Phnom-Penh persists in refusing to allow a "land bridge" for trucks to enter Cambodia...
With resentments rising, the Department of Energy last week opened hearings into the familiar but unsubstantiated charges of heating-oil profiteering by refiners, even as a group of 15 Senators, led by New York Republican Jacob Javits and New Jersey Democrat Harrison Williams, was urging Duncan to reinstate heating-oil...
Carter's expression of urgency came none too soon for congressional leaders. G.O.P. Presidential Hopeful How ard Baker told Carter that the whole matter "should have been dealt with by now." Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Frank Church declared that "the Senate will require a certification by the President that...
What especially worries Kissinger is the possibility that if Moscow achieves overall strategic superiority it might gain powerful diplomatic leverage. Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Frank Church questioned Kissinger's reasoning; the Idaho Democrat pointed out that even when the U.S. enjoyed nuclear superiority, the Soviets were not inhibited from...