Word: sessions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Apologies. In a 2½-hour session in the spacious ranch-house living room, the Governors got some complaints off their chests. Most were irritated that they are neither consulted nor informed about federal programs that affect their states. At the press conference, Johnson pooh-poohed any talk that there was a critical chasm between him and the Governors. But, he added: "We Democrats have never been known to suppress our differences. We do have different viewpoints on different programs. They have made that abundantly clear in their respective states. I made it abundantly clear that...
Almost every session of Parliament in the past decade has hotly debated the controversial recommendations of a government commission that came out in favor of relaxing the laws against homosexuality. When the suggestions were first introduced as legislation, the outcry was so shrill that the bill was overwhelmingly defeated, amid cries that the whole idea was "scandalous," "filthy" and "bestial." But in ten years, the mood in Parliament - and in the country - has changed. Last week the House of Commons passed the bill over token opposition, and it will soon go on the statute books...
...pivotal interview was the one with Mrs. Kennedy. For more than ten hours during two days in April 1964, Manchester taped her recollections at her Georgetown home in Washington. In his foreword he wrote: "Mrs. Kennedy asked but one question before our first taping session. 'Are you just going to put down all the facts, who ate what for breakfast and all that, or are you going to put yourself in the book, too?' I replied that I didn't see how I could very well keep myself out of it. 'Good,' she said emphatically...
...failure of British policy toward Rhodesia was equally apparent in London, where the House of Commons held its stormiest session since the Suez crisis of ten years ago. For the first time since Labor took control of the government two years ago, the Conservatives were in open opposition on the Rhodesia question. Wilson, charged Tory Deputy Leader Reginald Maudling, was leading Britain "into one of the greatest disasters in its history...
Though most Brazilian newspapers attacked the constitution as another step toward dictatorship, Castello Branco had no fears about congressional passage. With his proposed draft, he issued "Institutional Act No. 4," which calls Congress into extraordinary session between Dec. 12 and Jan. 24 for "discussion, voting and promulgation" of the new constitution. If Congress votes it down, the act empowers Castello Branco simply to go ahead and decree...