Word: sessions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Political Salesman." The President was determined not to ire voters by calling for a deflationary, across-the-board tax hike. Yet all through the second session, Johnson kept urging the Congress to keep his domestic programs at low price levels. To many members, his pleas smacked of election-year politicking, but when the final dollar total for programs passed over both sessions was added up, the 89th had actually allocated $3.3 billion less than the President had requested. For the two years, the 89th had appropriated just under $264 billion, an alltime record...
Whatever its high-priced shortcomings or long-term accomplishments, the 89th never did anything very easily or very early. Even the seemingly simple act of adjournment came hard. As the session plunged into its final hours last week, Senate leaders found themselves lacing one last formidable obstacle, a tax bill to encourage foreign investment in the U.S. It had already passed the House, and the proposal itself was no serious problem. But it was loaded with so many assorted amendments (24 in all) that it was laughingly labeled "the Christmas tree bill." Tennessee's Democratic Senator Albert Gore opposed...
...issue a public reprimand to Loan for last month's incident. This was not enough to placate the angry Southerners. Their prime mover last week was Economics Minister Au Truong Thanh, 41, who flew into Saigon from Washington with fury blazing behind his tinted bifocals. In a private session with Ky, he once again demanded Loan's dismissal. Otherwise, Thanh would not accompany Ky to Manila. "So you want to leave?" Ky asked quietly. "What can I do?" The other six Cabinet members were given the same shrug. "If you want to resign," they were told, "we cannot...
...somehow landed his messenger's job last August (a secret government inquiry is exploring the lapse in screening); then, acting on the impulse that he blamed on the demon inside him, Tsafendas attacked Verwoerd as he was about to make his first major policy speech of the Assembly session. "I can expect a certain amount of shock and dissatisfaction among certain people," Justice Beyers noted after his decision, "but I am sure they will realize it could not be otherwise, and that it is not humane or Christian to condemn mentally ill people. I can as little...
...more than $230 million in assets against $170 million in liabilities. But too much was tied up in risky long-term investments, depriving the bank of needed cash. Predictably, Intra's closing started a run that threatened to bankrupt other Beirut banks. At a twelve-hour emergency night session, the Lebanese Cabinet ordered a three-day bank holiday to stall for time. To avert another kind of panic, Beirut's stock exchange also closed. So did department stores and shops, bringing business in the city close to a standstill. Finally, the government pledged its $200 million reserves (mostly...