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...committee in the past had been embarrassed by its lack of independent knowledge. Only a month earlier the committee had given Lance what one member termed "our Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval." The investigators found what they considered evidence of potentially criminal behavior by Lance as a banker. By midweek they notified Ribicoff and Percy...
...President also threw his weight behind two other pro-union measures. At his midweek press conference. Carter announced that he would support an increase in the minimum wage from the current $2.30 to $2.65. effective next Jan. 1. The proposal, made by the House Education and Labor Committee, would tack an automatic escalator clause onto the minimum wage law for the first time. It would gradually lift the minimum wage to 53% of the average straight-time earnings of manufacturing workers by Jan. 1. 1980-or to an estimated $3.15 an hour. This represents a considerable Carter compromise. Originally...
...time he returns to Washington at midweek, Carter will have every right to feel exhausted-but also exhilarated. He could hardly feel otherwise, especially after reading tributes like the one that appeared on the editorial page of the Times of London: "At a time when [West European leaders] face democracy's sternest test since the war, the inspiration of Mr. Carter's confidence, energy and fresh mind is sorely needed. [He could prove to be] a worthy successor to Roosevelt, Truman and [George] Marshall." Of course anyone embodying the power of the U.S. is going to be treated...
Last week Mengistu achieved realignment in a single stroke. Declaring that U.S. aid had only helped Selassie to "suppress the liberation struggle of the oppressed masses," the junta expelled all American military advisers, communications experts and information officials. By midweek some 300 Americans had departed within the four-day deadline set by the government. At the same time, the government expelled resident correspondents from the Washington Post, Reuters and Agence France-Presse for "distorting" their reports. All that was left of a U.S. presence that once had numbered some 4,000 advisers, diplomats, technicians and family members were 76 staffers...
...They [Navy] were a good crew to go that high cadence all the way," Parker said later. But if they were good, the Crimson--whose ranks had been switched around at midweek--were better. Whether or not the switches made a difference, "Our setup was better, we just rowed much more together," Parker said...