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...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...
...deeper in the morass, and we've got another Viet Nam on our hands." Though there is little chance, at least initially, that Congress will reverse its decision, the Administration will almost certainly come under far more pressure to justify the peace-keeping mission. "What it all underscores," said Maryland Republican Senator Charles Mathias, "is, what is our Middle East policy? We need a policy." Asked House Democrat David Obey, who had opposed the President's request for congressional support: "What the hell are we supposed to be doing over there? What is the role...
...second-year medical student at the University of Maryland, Clayton was accused of cheating on a biology exam in 1979. He was brought before a nine-student honors committee and found guilty, according to the committee's faculty advisor, Professor A. Walton Litz...
...Princeton's Honor Committee concluded that Robert Clayton, then a sophomore, had cheated on a make-up exam. Clayton, who graduated in 1982, now attends medical school at the University of Maryland and hopes to clear his past academic record...