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Senator Abraham A. Ribicoff (D-Conn.) offered the measure as a rider to a House-passed bill restoring tax benefits for business investment in equipment and buildings. However, said Senator Eugene J.McCarthy (D-Minn.), the rider will probably be deleted by the conference committee now seeking a compromise between the House and Senate versions of the bill...
...tactics. In both saddle bronc and bareback riding, a cowboy must keep his balance on a bucking horse for 8 sec.-while holding on with only one hand. But a saddle bronc is outfitted with a saddle, stirrups, a halter and one rein, while the only thing a bareback rider can hang onto is a leather belt, fastened around the horse's belly. It isn't enough merely to stay on for 8 sec.; each cowboy is also rated on the quality of his ride-which means spurring the horse into frantic action. But not too frantic...
...Viet Nam-and battled down an attempt by Pennsylvania's Democratic Senator Joseph Clark to tack on an amendment demanding that the U.S. either declare war or freeze troop levels in the South at 500,000 (nearly 415,000 are already there). Convinced that Clark's rider would be defeated so decisively that the vote would be interpreted by U.S. hawks as a blank check for unlimited escalation, Mansfield performed some fancy legislative footwork. He offered a meaningless substitute amendment calling for a negotiated settlement of the war "that would preserve the honor of the U.S.," thus managed...
...some investors and mutual-fund salesmen are concerned, one of the uglier ornaments was a rider tightening up Section 351 (a) of the Internal Revenue Code. It ruled out the establishment of any exchange funds or-as they are more commonly known-swap funds that had not been registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission before last...
...named for Illinois' Republican Representative Paul Findley, who managed to attach to the 1966 Agricultural Appropriation Act a rider forbidding the subsidized shipment of U.S. food to "any nation that sells or furnishes any equipment, materials or commodifies" to North Viet Nam. As it happens, the Yugoslavs have been sending Hanoi blood, bandages and other medical supplies. Though the State Department has contended that the Findley Amendment does not apply in this case, insisting that the supplies have been sent by private Yugoslav citizens rather than by the government, the amendment takes little notice of such niceties...