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...Georgia's own Democratic Senator Sam Nunn echoes the message. The world has moved, and Nunn believes the U.S. lacks "a SALT philosophy" in a tune when events seem to be slipping out of our grasp. Republican Senator Charles McC. Mathias Jr. sat on one of his Maryland hillsides as long ago as April and heard Pakistan's brilliant ambassador, Sahabzada Yaqub-Khan, prophesy chaos in Iran. The ambassador has gone to Moscow, after telling his friends that his government believes the Soviets to be the dominant world force now because the U.S. cannot be counted...
...support of the proposition that reducing the availability of guns reduces crime, the MCC reports that where the rate of gun ownership is low the percentage of gun use in murder is also low. But GOAL members claim that these statistics, if they are correct, are misleading and irrelevant to the real issue. They argue the real issue is whether, in areas where gun ownership is low, the total rate of murder is lower, not just the percentage of guns used in those crimes. Someone who is murdered is dead regardless of whether he was killed by a gun, they...
Even before the full Senate had voted on the probe, Senate Minority Leader Hugh Scott had decided that the G.O.P. members of the committee would be John G. Tower of Texas as vice chairman, plus Barry M. Goldwater of Arizona, Charles McC. Mathias Jr. of Maryland, Richard S. Schweiker of Pennsylvania and Howard H. Baker Jr. of Tennessee. As vice chairman of the Senate Watergate Committee, Baker made a special point of probing the CIA's involvement in that scandal. Majority Leader Mike Mansfield had not yet settled on his appointments or on his choice for committee chairman; among...
...THOMAS C. SOUTHERLAND JR. and WILLIAM McC LEERY 256 pages. Simon & Schuster...
Many members of Congress, including Senator Charles McC. Mathias (R-Md.), said that the president's action yesterday will cause Congress to delay confirmation of Ford...