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...Foreign Affairs Committee, which has never held real power, would be enormously strengthened by gaining trade jurisdiction from Ways and Means, as well as special responsibilities for tariffs and customs and foreign intelligence. The Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee would almost disappear, while the Post Office and Civil Service Committee and the Internal Security Committee, once the Un-American Activities Committee and the springboard for Richard Nixon's career, would be abolished altogether...
...committee chairmen realized quickly who stood to lose and who to gain from the package. Potential losers were naturally the most vociferous. "I'll fight to the death," proclaimed Missouri's Leonor Sullivan, the new chairman of the Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee. Arkansas' Wilbur Mills, who as chairman of Ways and Means is considered the single most powerful man in the House, kept silent publicly for the moment, but was expected to speak up-loudly-before the voting...
...arson; the only question was by whom it was set. The whites charged that blacks had set the fire as a response to the injunction. The blacks charged that whites had started the fire--it destroyed a store owned by Hubert F. Mills. And Mills was the only merchant in town who had refused to sign the petition requesting the injunction...
...problems that are not rooted in the very nature of the seaway. They are asking the U.S. Maritime Administration for the same subsidies that are collected by the coastal shipping interests that compete with them. They also want moderation of the "Ship American" policy, which is mandated by the Merchant Marine...
...Money. As one of the many hubs of illicit trade between Communist and government zones, the dingy little town northwest of Saigon near the Cambodian border provided extra earnings to the underpaid local soldiers (less than $30 a month for privates). They collected bribes whenever a merchant carrying such items as gasoline and medicine headed into the Communist zone, and again when he returned bringing back fruit or fowl...