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...page report, which does not represent the views of the entire 130- member caucus, was released by the group's chairman, House Republican Jim Leach of Iowa, along with Republican Senator Mark Hatfield of Oregon and Democratic Congressman George Miller of California. Contending that the Administration has used "insufficient, misleading and in some cases false information," the document says that of the $1.7 billion provided to El Salvador since the outbreak of its civil war five years ago, some 30% has consisted of direct military aid and another 44%, the largest portion, is "indirect, war-related economic maintenance" like cash...
Conservative groups hailed the U.S.withdrawal, but some U.N. officials, educators and legislators on Capitol Hill maintained that the U.S. should reform UNESCO from within. Said Republican Congressman Jim Leach of Iowa: "It is difficult to know how U.S. views will be better protected from an empty chair." By this time next year, another chair may be empty. Great Britain last month gave notice that it intends to withdraw from UNESCO...
These are the same pranksters who four years ago made a rowdy success of the lovable Gilbert and Sullivan warhorse The Pirates of Penzance. Then as now, Papp was the producer, Wilford Leach the director, William Elliott the music supervisor and conductor, and Pop Singer Linda Ronstadt was boss soprano in charge of provoking doleful predictions that she could not possibly handle an operatic lead...
...Democratic Senators David Boren of Oklahoma and William Proxmire of Wisconsin; Democratic Congressmen Anthony Beilenson of California, Andrew Jacobs Jr. of Indiana and William Natcher of Kentucky; Republican Congressmen Bill Archer of Texas, William Goodling of Pennsylvania, Willis Gradison Jr. of Ohio, Jim Leach of Iowa and Ralph Regula of Ohio...
...more than halfway through a routine 20-mile run in Maine in preparation for the Olympic marathon, she felt a sharp stab on the outside of her right knee. Within the next mile, she recalls, "the knee completely prevented me from running another step." Her doctor, Orthopedic Surgeon Robert Leach of Boston University Medical Center, gave her an injection of cortisone. After a week's rest Benoit resumed training, but in early April she again had to "walk out of a run." This time Benoit was referred to Orthopedic Surgeon Stan James, in Eugene, Ore., whose roster of patients...