Word: marylander
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...warning that more documents remained at Lorton. Four days later, WTTG in Washington, D.C., reported that top-secret documents were circulating among prisoners. An obliging inmate had slipped copies of the documents to a WTTG-TV reporter. The station then passed them on to Senator Charles Mathias of Maryland, who returned them to red-faced State Department officials...
From a radio station in Maryland to the National Bank of Alaska, and from a beach in Florida to a horseracing track in Southern California, more than 15,000 alumni and friends will tune into the Ivy Satellite Network...
...Maryland, more than 100 graduates will huddle in a local radio station studio where a giant satellite receiver is already in place to receive signals...
...Reagan's staunchest supporters on the importance of keeping troops in Lebanon has been Speaker O'Neill. In a private caucus of House Democrats Wednesday, Samuel Stratton of New York, generally a hawk, and Clarence Long of Maryland, generally a dove, proposed a joint resolution to cut off funding for the Marines in Lebanon. O'Neill rose at the end of the meeting to make a grandiloquent and emotional appeal. "This is not the time," he cried, "to cut and run." He urged the party to put "patriotism above partisanship" and said he supported Reagan "because...
...insisted that the fundamental question is the "responsibility of the President to exercise [his] constitutional power of appointment." But Senators of both parties were outraged. Texas Democrat Lloyd Bentsen fulminated that "the President's action is a form of tyranny, the tyranny to put down voices of dissent." Maryland Republican Charles Mathias professed himself "shocked" by Reagan's "callous insensitivity to the efforts of congressional leaders" who had been trying to work out a compromise. John Shattuck, an official of the American Civil Liberties Union, voiced a suspicion common among civil rights activists. Said he: "The President...