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White House spokesman Patricia Barrio said yesterday Carter is optimistic that Rep. Jamie Whitten (D-Miss.), chairman of the Appropriations Committee, will bring the request to a vote after the recess, and that the committee will approve the transfer...
...staff aide of the Subcommittee on Independent Agencies said yesterday the two-week recess diminshes the chances that the full committee will eventually approve President Carter's $13 million request, but he added that the delay does not ensure defeat for the proposal...
...kind of diplomacy based on direct, capital-to-capital contacts. "It's a short leash now," says a 30-year veteran ruefully, "and it's just not as much fun." And then there are the official visitors. At the close of last year's Easter recess, the Peking embassy totted up the number of Congressmen, Senators, wives and aides to whom it had played host in a nine-day period. The total: 167. Says an embassy staffer: "We spend at least 50% of our time as glorified travel agents...
...teachers took their action only after enduring four delayed paydays, including a payless Christmas recess. Joan Morgan, 35, a first-grade teacher, put it succinctly: "I'm not going back until they pay me all my money." Early in the week that prospect seemed dim. On a local television show, the mayor, the president of the school board, the city's top financial adviser, the head of the teachers' union and a key city councilman-all of whom must cooperate to lead the school system out of financial chaos-engaged in a shouting match punctuated with name...
Congress is expected to applaud nearly unanimously the President's shift in emphasis. As the legislators return to Washington from their month-long recess and the chance to meet with their constituents, they will be bringing with them some of the fire and resentment Americans feel over the Soviet aggression in Afghanistan and over Iran's abuse of the 50 U.S. hostages. Indeed, last week's New York Times-CBS News poll revealed that 67% of the respondents thought the U.S. should "get tougher in its dealings with the Russians"; only 53% felt this way in June 1978. Even more...