Word: marche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...simmering in committee ever since. The code requires extensive disclosure by all Congressmen of their assets and income, and also limits their outside earnings, in most cases to $8,625 a year. This last provision upset many House members, but O'Neill made them agree to it in March 1977 in exchange for a fat increase in pay, from $44,600 to $57,500 a year...
...instead of the 29 planned by the Ford Administration's budget projections. Not since Pearl Harbor, protest some Navymen, have so many ships been sunk at one time. This reduction, moreover, appears to be only the first of many. The Administration's five-year shipbuilding plan, submitted in late March, gives the Navy 70 new ships, costing $32 billion, through fiscal 1983. This is only half of what the service says it needs. But, says Secretary Brown, "a larger shipbuilding program would jeopardize our current readiness by diverting the funds we need to maintain and operate the ships we already...
...misjudged the impact of charges leveled against him by his counsel, John Dean, whom he fired in the spring of 1973. The most serious was Dean's persuasive claim that Nixon had approved hush-money payments to the Watergate burglars in a White House meeting that March 21. "I went off on a tangent by concentrating all our attention and resources on trying to refute Dean. But it no longer made any difference that not all of Dean's testimony was accurate. It only mattered if any of his testimony was accurate. And Dean's account...
Carter seemed somewhat puzzled by the Israelis' continued stance. Talking to a group of editors and broadcasters last week, the President noted that during Begin's March visit to the White House, the Israeli leader "never mentioned to me one time any concern he might have about the sale of weapons...
...post-election Algerian vacation, Communist Leader Georges Marchais was in an even more than normally combative mood as he took the podium at his party's Paris headquarters. The occasion: the first meeting of the 126-member central committee since the left's stunning election defeat last March. Did the blame for that lie with the Communists, who bickered endlessly with their Socialist allies during the campaign? Not to hear Marchais tell it. "We bear no responsibility," he said in a dukes-up, three-hour speech. The cause, he asserted, was purely the Socialists' "obstinacy...