Word: moakley
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Exultation was not shared, however, by the legions of other Central American refugees the Administration refuses to welcome. Democratic Congressman John Joseph Moakley of Massachusetts, sponsor of legislation to prevent the deportation of Salvadorans and Nicaraguans, accused the Administration of "playing politics with people's lives" in helping Nicaraguans (reflecting U.S. aversion to the Sandinista regime) while ignoring ; Salvadorans (to avoid suggesting that they might have reason to flee from a government the U.S. supports). Said Moakley: "If El Salvador were under Communist leadership, they'd have the welcome wagons out waiting...
...John J. Moakley, D-Mass., delivered the keynote address, and physicist Se Hee Ahn, president of Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea, received an honorary degree...
Sanctuary activists are hoping that what they call a "crackdown on compassion" will be made unnecessary by passage of the DeConcini-Moakley proposal, now in congressional judiciary committees, which would grant temporary residence to Salvadoran refugees. Meanwhile, the knotty question of whether religious convictions can justify civil disobedience seems certain to continue fueling disputes within congregations and conflict between the U.S. Government and religious activists...
...Neill had heard enough. Incensed by an attack on Democratic legislators by Republican Congressman Newt Gingrich of Georgia during a debate last week, the House Speaker dropped his gavel and strode angrily onto the floor, leaving his Massachusetts colleague Democrat Joseph Moakley to take the chair. O'Neill shook a finger at Gingrich and roared, "You challenged their patriotism, and it is the lowest thing that I have ever seen in my 32 years in Congress...
...words be "taken down"-a signal that O'Neill should be called to order for violating the House's rule against personal attacks. Parliamentarian William Brown consulted a dictionary to see if the word lowest was a slur. Minutes ticked by in painful silence until a chagrined Moakley, as gently as possible, informed the Speaker that he had indeed violated the chamber's code. "I was expressing my views very mildly," protested a bristling O'Neill, "because I think much worse than what I actually said...