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...showing of the film, as the participants in the conference were introducing themselves, one of them. Penn Jones, a newspaperman who has devoted the last ten years of his life to tracing what became of the witnesses to the J.F.K. assassination, made an announcement: he knew that Adlai Stevenson had been murdered in London, another victim of a massive, as yet unidentified conspiracy...
Outraged by the reports about the CIA and FBI activities, the Senate Democrats caucused last week. After hearing evidence that congressional oversight, particularly of the CIA, has been inadequate, the Democrats agreed, according to Adlai E. Stevenson III of Illinois, that "the danger of the police state is no longer unreal." They voted 45 to 7 to recommend that the Senate set up a select committee to investigate "the extent, if any, to which illegal, improper or unethical activities were engaged in by any agency" of the U.S. Government from the days of the cold war until the present...
...fast tax cut. Indeed, within a couple of months they may well enact a deeper slash than Ford has asked. But they fear that the President's energy proposals would push prices .so high as to destroy the purchasing power that the tax reductions would create. Democratic Senator Adlai Stevenson III of Illinois estimates the chances of Ford's energy program getting through Congress as "zero...
...great this "ripple effect" might be is anybody's guess; sluggish demand will certainly restrain some price increases. But some of the guesses are frightening. Senator Stevenson figures that the energy program could eventually raise living costs for the average family by $1,000 a year, or four times the $250 in direct fuel increases that the Administration estimates. A. Gary Shilling, chief economist at the Wall Street firm of White, Weld, fears that price increases forced by energy costs could total not $30 billion but $60 billion. That may be overblown, but if the increases go as high...
...light of this hunger for credits, Moscow was stunningly humiliated when the Senate tacked an amendment onto an Export-Import Bank bill setting the paltry $300 million limit on the amount that would be available to the Soviets. It was probably this amendment, sponsored by Illinois Democrat Adlai Stevenson III, even more than the emigration amendment tacked onto the trade bill by Washington Democrat Henry Jackson, that finally prompted the Russians to scuttle the trade agreement. Kissinger, who opposed the credit ceiling, dismissed the sum as "peanuts." For the prideful Kremlin, it was an intolerable putdown...