Word: membered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...down to defeat in 1978. It is even conceivable that the G.O.P. might win control of the Senate in 1980 or '82. Democrats have such recurring nightmares as finding Strom Thurmond the head of the Senate Judiciary Committee, while the current chairman, Kennedy, becomes merely the ranking minority member...
...Board, which will speed up energy production by cutting red tape, Carter abandoned a demand that the board be empowered to override federal and state law. Unfortunately, the House Commerce Committee had not been informed by Carter operatives and had approved a bill with these powers intact. When Committee Member John Dingell learned of Carter's switch, he acidly remarked: "The Administration has the capacity to surprise its friends and please its enemies...
...Chicago and New York City, they had demanded Puerto Rican independence and refused to rule out violence. During a press conference at the U.N., Collazo said, "I decide whether terrorism is necessary after I return to Puerto Rico." Lebrón added, "I am a revolutionary and a member of the atomic age ... I hate bombs but we might have to use them...
...contrary, even in the executive committee or the supercabinet, she is not a member. If 1 died or if I were in any way disqualified from continuing as President or Prime Minister, under the constitution, it is specifically provided that the Batasang Pambansa [the pro-Marcos interim legislature] chooses the successor. And I don't know why everybody is in doubt. The members of the permanent Batasang Pambansa will be elected again in 1984. They will help to decide who the Prime Minister is all over again. Now if all those people want to change me, they can work...
...wells from the Israelis. He does not wish to get embroiled in any new controversies that might offer the Israelis a pretext to balk on the timetable, which now calls for the return of the areas containing the oil wells by next November. Explained an Egyptian member of the autonomy committee: "If we can establish the sense of permanence and stability we have today in the bilateral relations between Egypt and Israel, then we can do the same with autonomy...