Word: objectionable
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"The basic reason that it (the earlier version of the bill) failed adoption in the Senate was the Senate Budget Committee felt it was just too expensive," Donald Berens, assistant to the House Education and Labor Committee and a member of the conference group, said yesterday. "We have substantially reduced...
Kennedy also called Ronald Reagan to report that, if nominated, he hoped he could join Anderson and the Governor in three-way debates. Receiving the call, Reagan aides suspected an impostor was on the line. They got Kennedy's private phone number, then his office number, called back on...
In his rebuttal, Begin said: "I believe with all my heart that the land of Israel belongs to the whole Jewish people ... Hence, I have no objection to Jews who live in the Diaspora criticizing the government of the day." Nonetheless, he complained that he "found reason for surprise" that...
Egypt said it welcomed the European initiative. Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Butros Ghali called the principles contained in the Venice declaration "compatible" with the Camp David accords and said: "We have no objection to any contacts the Europeans may seek in the common quest for peace." That left...
Carter's objection got a quick response from House Speaker Thomas P. (Tip) O'Neill, who had reluctantly endorsed the committee compromise and then joined in opposing it. "I kind of vacillated a bit myself," he said. New York's hawkish Democrat Samuel Stratton, on the other...