Word: moynihan
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Other senators, sitting behind a table at the end of a hearing room packed with more than 100 spectators, chimed in with praise for Champion. Sen. Daniel P. Moynihan (D-N.Y.) said Champion was "transparently honest and impeccably honorable," and others praised him as "able" and "honorable." But Sen. Carl Curtis (R-Neb.) held the vote up until after the committee could hear from Califano in person, so word was sent down Capitol Hill that his testimony was needed...
Wide Influence. The attack on Zaïre is the latest-and perhaps most ominous-indication of the fast-growing presence in black Africa of the Cubans, whom former U.N. Ambassador Daniel P. Moynihan called "the Gurkhas of the Russian empire." Besides the approximately 13,000 Cuban troops and 4,000 advisers in Angola, Western intelligence sources believe that Havana now has military and/or civilian advisers in the Congo (Brazzaville) (2,000), Sierra Leone (200-300), Guinea (300-500), Equatorial Guinea (300-500), Guinea-Bissau (300), Mozambique (500-600), Tanzania (500), Somalia (650) and, for the past month...
...Americans working abroad-and made both provisions retroactive on income earned earlier in the year. The Finance Committee voted to make those provisions apply only to income earned in 1977 and later years. "Retroactivity is against the spirit of the American Constitution," boomed New York Democrat Daniel P. Moynihan, who helped lead the move. People who are now filling out Form 1040 probably would be well advised not to claim the sick-pay exclusion: it is not at all certain that the Moynihan proposal will become law. Should it do so, taxpayers who have already sent in 1976 returns...
...Finance Committee, a group studded with stars like Sen. Daniel P. Moynihan (D-N.Y.), Sen. Abraham Ribicoff (D-Conn.), Sen. Robert Dole (R-Kan.), Sen. John Tower (R-Tex.) and chaired by Sen. Russell Long (D-La.), then voted unanimously to send Champion's nomination to the full Senate with a recommendation to confirm...
Harvard appears to have some powerful friends in Washington these days, with former employees like Champion and Moynihan on both sides of the hearing table...