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...than meets the eye. First of all, Goldwater: why did he allow the CIA to postpone meetings on two different occasions and then not focus debate in the March 8 meeting on the mining issue, which must have been in his newspaper by then? Why, further, has Senator Patrick Moynihan (D-N.Y.) resigned in protest at not having been told about the mining? Such a resignation hardly seems an apt way to protest failure on the part of a subsidiary body to conform to rules set for it. But strangest of all, don't the House and Senate intelligence...
Still, Mondale owed much to the backing of the state's Democratic leaders-New York City Mayor Ed Koch, Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan and particularly Governor Mario Cuomo. In exit polling, 20% of New York voters said they were influenced by the endorsements, and 90% of that group voted for Mondale. Virtually taking control of Mondale's campaign, serving as both surrogate and spokesman for the former Vice President, Cuomo established himself as a national figure in his own right...
...week's end the measure had 38 co-sponsors in the Senate, including 14 Republicans, and 215 in the House. There were a few signs that some of its backers were having second thoughts about the precipitate nature of the move; even Moynihan said that he had not been active in lining up support for the measure and would not call it to the floor unless there existed "a clear majority for it." But opponents were still worried about the power of election-year pressures, especially in the House. Said one: "We'd better understand that when...
Equally distressing, from King Hussein's viewpoint, is a drive in Congress to force the Administration to move the U.S. embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. That bill, pressed by Democratic Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York, has already gained the support of at least 36 Senators and about 200 Congressmen. It is being sold to lawmakers as a triumph of political common sense: Why not move the embassy 40 miles to the city that has been Israel's capital since 1949, and by so doing gladden the hearts of Israelis and their American supporters...
Recent speakers have included Daniel P. Moynihan (D-N.Y.) and writer-diplomat Carlos Fuentes last year...