Word: moynihan
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...week they offered four crippling amendments to the second treaty. Each was knocked down by overwhelming majorities, including an absurd proposal put forth by Wyoming Republican Malcolm Wallop. It called for return of the canal to the U.S. if either country violated the new treaties. New York Democrat Patrick Moynihan angrily called the idea "inane" and "devoid of intellectual content." Said he: "We are reducing the Senate to a playground of juvenilia, a playpen of prepubescent youth." After colleagues objected to the unusual personal attack, Moynihan apologized...
While New York Senator Pat Moynihan strives to become a Washington mogul, Wife Elizabeth has been boning up on the Indian model. Ever since her days in New Delhi, where Pat served as U.S. ambassador in 1973-75, Elizabeth has been fascinated by Mogul gardens and by Baber, the founder of the Mogul dynasty. Inspired by his journals, Elizabeth went back to India in hopes of finding the site of his fabled lotus garden. With the aid of a village wise man, she discovered a Mogul-style well and an octagonal pool 37 miles south of Agra. "I was jumping...
...Daniel P. Moynihan (D-N.Y.) is sponsoring a tax-cut bill aimed at helping middle-income groups meet the costs of college education. President Carter opposes this bill, advocating instead an expansion of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare's (HEW) existing Student Financial Aid Program...
...Hoily, research assistant to Moynihan, yesterday criticized the Census Bureau's report, calling its figures "misleading." "We have figures that show the percentage of middle-income students enrolled in college has declined--just not as much as people thought," Holly said...
Holly called Moynihan's position on the tax-cut bill "a matter of equity," based on the needs of middle-income groups. He said Moynihan is "disappointed that the administration sees HEW's Aid Program as an alternative," not an adjunct, to the proposed bill...