Word: maryland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...getting the Senate to vote to lift the embargo was not simple. Senators were subjected to considerable pressure by the pro-Greek lobby. Democrat Paul Sarbanes of Maryland, for example, asserted that the embargo must remain because "at no point have there been concrete actions by the Turkish forces to return any of the fruits of their aggression." On the other side, the Administration applied more pressure than on any foreign issue since the Panama Canal treaties and the Middle East plane deal. Every Senator was reached at least once, and many met personally with Carter. The President had three...
...political divorces can be messy, Talmadge soon learned, as have others -former Governor Marvin Mandel of Maryland, Governor George Wallace of Alabama and Senator Edward Brooke of Massachusetts.* Last August, Talmadge revealed in a deposition that it had long been his practice to accept pocket money, clothing and lodging from friends. In fact, he had written only one check for cash in six years. Says he: "Wherever I go, people entertain me, lodge me, give me small amounts of money. My out-of-pocket expenses come from donations friends give me-$5, a $10 bill, sometimes...
Andrea Rander's husband Donald, then an Army sergeant first class, was captured in Hue during Tet 1968 and taken to Hanoi. She raised their children alone for five years. A few weeks before he returned, a reporter interviewed her at home in Maryland. The reporter left uneventfully, then the telephone rang. "I forgot one question," she remembers him saying. "Do you have any boyfriends, and are you planning to divorce your husband?" Andrea Rander is a petite black woman. Standing beside her husband at a reception sponsored by Braniff Airlines, she glares angrily at me, yet another reporter...
...impact at the federal level than might be expected. "People are taking hold of whatever handles they can find," said New York Republican Congressman Barber Conable, "but it's very difficult to get hold of the handles of the Federal Government." That did not ease the fears of Maryland Democratic Congressman Parren Mitchell, leader of the Congressional Black Caucus, that social services will be cut most sharply by the economy knives. Mitchell predicted that "every single human-resources program is going to be in danger. Medicare and Medicaid, welfare, the jobs programs...
...high school athletes jog slowly back and forth, stretch and massage tight muscles, crouch in imaginary starting blocks, huddle with coaches for last-minute strategy sessions, or loll on the synthetic green turf, sipping cocoa and waiting. Susan White, a 19-year-old hurdler from the University of Maryland, surveys the scene. There is a trace of awe in her voice: "When I was in high school, I never dreamed of competing in a national meet. People are finally accepting us as athletes...