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Free Movement. Within the past three weeks, Sadat has met with 33 U.S. Senators and Congressmen visiting the Middle East. Confirming what he had said to TIME (Nov. 29), he told one delegation, headed by Connecticut's Democratic Senator Abraham Ribicoff, that he was ready to go to a Geneva conference "without preconditions," and would sign a peace agreement with Israel. Sadat's plan also calls for total Israeli withdrawal from territory occupied since 1967, as well as United Nations peace-keeping forces to patrol the frontiers and guarantee free movement of ships in the Aqaba Gulf...
...wise and watchful country lawyer Charles Kirbo, sat motionless and listened. He had traveled from Atlanta to Washington to gather complaints and advice about the stalled campaign. There, in Scoop Jackson's office, he went before a dozen Senators-veterans like Fritz Rollings of South Carolina and Abe Ribicoff of Connecticut, and newcomers like Colorado's Gary Hart and Florida's Richard Stone. One of them thought that the gray and silent Kirbo looked like a possum, unmoving and wary. He had brought with him top Carter agents, Landon Butler and Jack Watson, who sat scribbling into...
Nader dismisses the Sanford book as "a consumer fraud." Connecticut's Democratic Senator Abe Ribicoff, whose subcommittee hearings on auto safety first thrust Nader into prominence, offers a more eloquent rebuttal. "I read that people are kicking Ralph Nader around," Ribicoff told TIME. "He's still a man of great influence. He's got integrity. He takes on causes that very few people want to take on. They are all controversial. He's right some of the time. He's wrong some. But he's willing to take them...
...been so active in Carter's campaign for the black vote. A few minutes later another person wondered whether it was O.K. for Cyrus Vance, former Secretary of the Army, to go to a New Jersey fund raiser. A bulletin from the field reported that Senator Abraham Ribicoff might be ready to endorse Carter, and Jordan, welcoming it with some relief, ordered that if that happened a letter about it should be sent to all the Jewish delegates...
...conducted by Frank Church's Senate Select Committee would lead to the creation of a truly effective congressional committee with oversight powers on the intelligence agencies. But for the efforts of a few Senators who dug in their heels-Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, Government Operations Committee Chairman Abraham Ribicoff and California's Alan Cranston among them -the answer might well have been an emphatic no. Yet last week, acting out of a palpable frustration caused by the long trail of illegalities starting with Watergate, the Senate finally redeemed itself. By 72 to 22, it voted to establish...