Word: murtha
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Foley had not asked for an Air Force Three (the President and Vice President have much larger jets). Pennsylvania Democrat John Murtha had inserted the provision. He enjoys luxurious travel and undoubtedly figured he could borrow Foley's jet. The Speaker quickly shot down his own plane...
Congressman John Murtha of Pennsylvania, an official U.S. observer of the election, asked a woman in the eastern city of Jocoro if she were intimidated by guerrilla threats. She replied: "They can kill my family, they can kill my neighbors if we vote. But they cannot kill us all." Unable to land its helicopter in Perquin because of fighting in the area, Murtha's party looked down to see long lines of voters waiting patiently to cast their ballots. In the departmental capital of San Miguel, Father Theodore Hesburgh, president of the University of Notre Dame...
...official U.S. observer contingent: Senator Nancy Kassebaum, Congressmen John Murtha and Robert Livingston, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs Everett Briggs, University of Notre Dame President Father Theodore Hesburgh, former University of California President Clark Kerr and Pollsters Richard Scammon and Howard Penniman...
Thompson is also said to have introduced Democratic Congressman John Murtha of Pennsylvania to Criden, and the two then allegedly met with the FBI men. Though Murtha was named in the conspiracy charges, he was not indicted. He voluntarily testified before the grand jury - and may testify against his col leagues at their trials, though the Justice Department has not offered him immunity in return for his testimony...
...investigation and a few might prove too weak for indictments. Other Government sources later broke the cases involving the eight members of Congress into similar categories. The evidence was termed strongest against Williams, Jenrette, Kelly, Myers and Lederer; that against Thompson and Murphy was called weaker but still strong. Murtha's case, it was said, might possibly be dropped...