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Senators favoring a 21-year drinking age yesterday continued to criticize State Sen. Chester G. Atkins, chairman of the Senate Ways and Means Committee, for sending for a vote on the Senate floor only the part of the House drinking bill that raised the drinking age to 19, while keeping in committee the portion of the bill gradually raising the drinking age to 21. Because the entire bill was technically before the Senate, the senators could not amend the bill to phase in a 21-year drinking...
...governor is rendered helpless, paralysed by the chairman of his own committee," State Sen. David H Locke, said yesterday...
...would hurt Iran's creditors as much as Iran itself. Reports that Abol-Hassan Banisadr - said to be a leading candidate for Finance Minister in the regime that Ayatullah Khomeini wants to establish - plans to write off an undisclosed portion of Iran's foreign debt if cho sen for the post, were hardly reassuring. Said a Citibank vice president bravely: "Whatever comes out of this will be a sensible decision. Someone will be there with a level head to deal with the debt situation." If so, he had better turn up soon...
...State Sen. David H. Locke, a supporter of a 21-year drinking age, accused State Sen. Chester G. Atkins, chairman of the Ways and Means Committee of cheating the senators of a chance to pass the more stringent bill. He said the Ways and Means maneuver made the other senators no more effective than "giggling eunuchs...
...cute trick, but I think it's not a fair procedure," Locke said yesterday. But Sen. Francis D. Doris said yesterday Atkin's approach to the bill may have prevented "weeks, yes even months" of Senate debate...