Word: sessions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SUMMER FOCUS (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). "Marathon: The Story of the Young Drug Users" explores the tormented world of young addicts during a marathon group-therapy session at Daytop Village, on Staten Island...
Evasion & Delay. Before the 14-hour session ended at 1:40 a.m.-with passage of the $3.4 billion authorization bill, 294 to 122-the Republican leadership suffered still further humiliation. Ford made a token effort to have the bill sent back to committee, only to see 46 Republicans desert him. On the final vote for passage, 99 defected...
...father's swollen rhetoric but by the martial music that suddenly took the place of whiny Arab folk songs on Radio Cairo. The absentee-prone Lebanese parliament, perhaps the world's most unmartial body, became so incensed that it took the warlike step of ending its emergency session with a wildly off-key singing of the national anthem. National Guardsmen in Da mascus had a fine time stopping all traffic on the city's wide boulevards and ordering everyone to take shelter-even though nothing more ominous appeared in the sky than a few vultures. In Israel...
...Minister Harold Wilson postponed a visit to Washington because of the crisis, but Foreign Minister George Brown flew off to Moscow to talk it over with the Russians ("What could he possibly do?" sarcastically asked London's Labor-leaning Daily Mirror). The French Cabinet, after an all-day session with Charles de Gaulle, decided that it might be a good idea if all four major powers pitched in together to head off disaster-but stopped short of actually recommending such a move. Moscow, although concerned by the crisis, declined to align itself with the West and suggested disingenuously that...
Congress is probably not ready to handle the problem of objection to particular wars in this session, but in the meantime, the conference committee on draft legislation should throw out the House's proposed restrictions on regular conscientious objectors. It should urge the President to cut deferments and institute a lottery system as soon as possible...