Word: reopens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most formidable early foe of ratification appears to be Alabama's wily Democrat James Allen, a master of parliamentary tactics. He vows to smother the treaties with amendments that would, in effect, force the Administration either to abandon the accord or reopen negotiations with Panama. If this tactic fails, he will try to dilute the treaties with Senate-passed reservations, which would not be legally binding but would commit the U.S. in a moral way, with unpredictable practical effect...
...been Gorky, a city on the Volga River about the size of Buffalo, N.Y. Gorky has only three small Orthodox churches in outlying areas to serve an estimated 150,000 active communicants. Last month, with considerable courage, 1,700 people signed a petition asking the regime to reopen one of Gorky's 100 or so closed churches; many are now in use as bakeries, museums or warehouses. According to the petition, the Gorky churches are so crowded on Sundays that their congregations overflow onto the streets and old people faint in the crush...
Janus said she has received only one call protesting the closing. She added that if students strongly oppose the move, the Department would reopen the IAB before the scheduled date of November...
...including the question of whether Lance had improperly used his Atlanta bank's aircraft to take himself and Carter on purely political trips. That would amount to an illegal corporate political contribution if the bank were not reimbursed for such travel. The Senate Governmental Affairs Committee intends to reopen in two weeks its less than aggressive hearings into Lance's financial affairs. Democratic Chairman Abraham Ribicoff went into the earlier inquiry like a lion and came out like a lamb, lauding Lance and lambasting the press. He has already announced that he is satisfied that the comptroller...
...into NBG's affairs. Senate Republicans are at last showing some interest in Lance's troubles. They had been uncharacteristically silent, chiefly because they liked his moderate economic views. Now Senator Robert Dole and House Republican Conference Chairman John Anderson are urging Connecticut Democrat Abraham Ribicoff to reopen his Senate Government Affairs Committee's once-over-lightly hearing on Lance's loans. Without wait ing for that investigation to get under way, Anderson last week became the first major congressional figure to call publicly for Lance's resignation. "It seems clear," said Anderson, that Lance...