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...Neill and the House Rules Committee basically want to follow the Canadian example, with fixed cameras focusing on the three spots from which members officially speak during business: the Speaker's rostrum and the majority and minority tables. There would also be several movable cameras to provide different angles, but some fear that the whole system, if run by Government employees, would blinker off the surrounding atmospherics. The cameras would, in fact, provide a kind of visual Congressional Record-except of course that members would not be permitted to edit their remarks, as they often do now before...
...spoke those words is the leader of the National Front, Britain's fastest growing political party and a party which is successfully challenging the Liberals for third place on Britain's political rostrum. The National Front is a modern-day Nazi party, an avowedly racist and nationalist organization whose structure, tactics and goals all recall Hitler's National Socialism. Its surprising progress in recent local elections and by-elections is alarming Britain's political establishment, and provoking violent nationwide debate and confrontation...
...silver and ebony mace, an emblem of congressional authority, has been placed on its green marble pedestal behind the rostrum in the House of Representatives. Quill pens, symbolic links with a more genteel past, have been sharpened in the Senate, where they are available to any member. At high noon this Thursday, Jan. 19, Speaker Tip O'Neill in the House and Vice President Walter Mondale in the Senate will smartly rap their gavels on the polished desks before them. Thus will begin the second session of the 95th Congress, one of the boldest and balkiest in memory...
...afternoon, Sadat mounted the rostrum of the Knesset to deliver?in Arabic?a 57-minute speech notable for its rhetorical passion. He had come to the Knesset, the President said, not to sign a peace treaty but to break down the "barrier of suspicion, fear, illusion and misinterpretation" that for so long has prevented the two neighbors from even talking about peace. In the strongest acknowledgment ever made by an Arab leader of Israel's right to exist, Sadat said, "You want to live with us in this part of the world. We welcome you in sincerity." Sadat promised that...
...Sermon on the Mount setting, wizened farmers in stiff Sunday black mingled with villagers wearing gaily embroidered costumes and city youths in Western jeans and printed T shirts. The crowd had reached 10,000 when the Rev. Billy Graham, visibly moved at the reception, made his way to the rostrum last week to begin his first Soviet-bloc preaching tour in three decades of gospel globetrotting...