Word: session
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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THEY CANNOT SHIELD THEIR CONSCIENCES FROM THE FACT THAT THE SCHEDULING OF THE VIETNAM MORATORIUM ALREADY HAS UNDERMINED THE PARIS PEACE TALKS, THAT THE NORTH VIETNAMESE AND THE VIET CONG AT THE MOST RECENT SESSION OF THE 8-MONTH LONG TALKS IGNORED ALLIED PEACE PROGRAMS AND INSTEAD DIRECTED THEIR PROPAGANDA DIRECTLY AT THOSE WHO PLAN TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS WEDNESDAY'S VIETNAM PROTEST...
...House was not in session on Friday. The Senate was in session for half a day. Most of the House members didn't come to their offices on Friday. They found one excuse or another to be out of town, or at home. The few people who did come in generally avoided talking to their young constituents who were beginning to flow into the House offices...
...Senate side was a little different. They kept up their image of being the more liberal side of Congress. First, they were in session so at least they made the appearance for the day. Then they also talked to the youngsters who came wandering through their doors. But they did so mostly in large groups, shaking hands and giving the V sign where they knew it would gain them door-to-door canvassers in the next election. Nonetheless, they weren't ready to sit down for serious discussions about the issue...
...committee, the party's highest executive body, to consider Indira's actions against Nijalingappa. Indira defiantly summoned her supporters on the working committee to meet at the same time but at a different place. The result: an even split. Ten members went to the Syndicate's session and ten to Indira's, while the 21st member shuttled between the two groups in hopes of patching up the quarrel...
...efforts were in vain. To make the break clear, she fired the last of the Syndicate men in her Cabinet, then moved to convene her own session of the All-India Congress Committee later this month. Nijalingappa ruled that her action is illegal, and if she goes through with the rival meeting, the split will probably be irreparable...