Word: ribicoff
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Look, "said Ribicoff, "this is a tough one for everybody...
...began on April 11 in the gracious apartment of Senator Abraham Ribicoff of Connecticut. For dinner that night, he and his wife entertained Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, Senators Frank Church and Ted Kennedy and Scotty Reston of the New York Times. Over duck à I'orange, the men had a free-flowing talk about the nation's foreign policies, including the newly announced plan to sell military aircraft in a package to Israel, Egypt and Saudi Arabia, a matter already causing intense debate...
...president has opted to create a strong department of education," Sen. Abraham Ribicoff (D-Conn.), chairman of the Committee on Education that sponsored the bill for the new department, the Associated Press reported yesterday...
...Carter administration's plan for the Department of Education includes virtually everything that Ribicoff and the other 56 senators on the Committee for Education wanted in the agency except the National Endowment of the Arts and Humanities...
...Ribicoff committee was not letting up on Lance. It released an affidavit from Michael Patriarca, a low-level attorney on the staff of the Comptroller of the Currency, which belatedly contradicted assertions by Lance that he lad never asked anyone in the Comptroller's office to lift sanctions against the Calhoun bank so his record would be cleaner as he faced confirmation hearings. Patriarca claimed that last Nov. 22 Lance had asked Donald Tarleton, the Atlanta regional director for the Comptroller, to do just that. (Tarleton had also denied any such overture by Lance.) Clearly, the assault on Lance...