Word: statement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Democrat Edward Roybal, one of four Congressmen accused of taking illegal payments from Korean Rice Dealer Tongsun Park. Roybal has given the committee two highly damaging sworn depositions about the matter. In one he denied ever receiving money from Park. When that proved false, he said in the second statement that he turned the $1,000 over to his campaign director for election expenses. Roybal actually pocketed the cash, investigators claim. If so, he too could be expelled from the House on the recommendation of the ethics committee. If such action is not taken, says one investigator, "Congress is saying...
...Well... I don't think he'll run, he's made that clear... but that's one bridge we'll have to look at... later." Oooooooooh. This was, perhaps, the first time Dukakis had ever blushed in public, as he realized the implications of his statement. It was a spark of comic relief in a media show full of nebulous ideas and statements...
Reading from a prepared statement, Vorster said yesterday, "The South African government does not wish to close doors" to further negotiations with the United Nations and the western powers on the Namibia question...
...thematic depth in usually vapid musicals, but in this case the apparent wishy-washiness of the implicit message, if there is any, becomes rather annoying--but not until well after you leave the theater. De Broca's film contained both a muted anti-war message and an eloquent statement contrasting the so-called crazies in the asylum with the real crazies in uniform, who kill each other in a quest for peace. Who's really crazy, and all that. Neither of these implicit themes comes through clearly in the musical version. Both of these themes are discernable, of course...
White House press secretary Jody Powell said yesterday that he did not view Hussein's statement "as any contravention of the view expressed to President Carter, that they [the Jordanians] are awaiting a full briefing" before deciding on their position towards the agreement...