Word: macneil
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
While the fighting flared in Lebanon, TIME'S congressional correspondent, Neil MacNeil, was using his own experience and contacts to cover an equally historic, if quite different, event: the Senate's vote on the first of two Panama Canal treaties. In the tense days that preceded the vote, MacNeil spent much of his time walking the corridors and working the back rooms of the Senate, dogging key figures he has known over the years and listening to their speculations. MacNeil also had access to the head counts of both sides, and constantly compared them with...
...book provides the necessary antidote to weekly journalism. It's fun to have space for 100,000 words," says Senior Writer Robert Hughes, who is writing about the colonization of Australia by convicts in the 18th century. Correspondent Neil MacNeil turned to history in a recent monograph, The President's Medal, 1789-1977. For others, contemporary events have provided subjects: Associate Editor David Tinnin's forthcoming I, Terrorist examines the motivations of terrorists; Correspondent James Willwerth's new Badge of Madness is about the breakdown of one New York policeman...
Chief Targets. TIME Correspondent Neil MacNeil reports that House Speaker Tip O'Neill, convinced that no present Congressman is guilty of wrongdoing in the scandal, has told the House Ethics Committee "to leave no stone unturned." The committee's chief targets apparently are the former House members who were Park's beneficiaries. Moreover, Hanna's and Gallagher's tax returns are being examined by federal prosecutors, who hope to turn up violations that can be used to force the former legislators to open up about other Congressmen's dealings with Park...
Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd complains that the President's energy program "was not thought out." He also feels that Carter states lofty goals, then fails to follow through; that he is trying too much without knowing enough. As Byrd told TIME Correspondent Neil MacNeil, "He's getting good on-the-job training, but he has so little experience that there may not be time to learn enough...
...also be listening to their constituents, and most Americans feel no sense of urgency about energy. Memories of last winter's fuel shortages have dimmed. The Gallup poll finds that only 45% of the public think that the energy situation is worse .than "fairly serious." Reported TIME Correspondent Neil MacNeil, who has covered Congress for more than a quarter-century: "It's going to be tough for a Congressman to vote to punish his constituents when they can't see why. Historically, Americans don't mend the roof when the sun is shining, so there's reason for skepticism...