Word: wisconsin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...documents he desires and that he would not be fired without the approval of a "substantial majority" of eight congressional leaders of both parties. Republican Representative Wiley Mayne of Iowa said Congress still had to enact legislation with "very strong language assuring the independence of the special prosecutor." Declared Wisconsin Democrat Robert Kastenmeier, a senior member of the House Judiciary Committee: "The truth is we cannot have any faith in the President on this matter." Added Illinois's Stevenson: "We've relied before on the promises of the President, and Congress has been burned. There...
Making his first appearance in the northeast is a "Klompenmaker" or crafter of Dutch wooden shoes from Wisconsin who will demonstrate how such shoes are made in the traditional manner with crude hand tools...
Soglin had begun leading demonstrations against the war in 1963, helped lead Wisconsin's Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, went to law school and then got himself elected to the city council, where he scandalized his colleagues by releasing the names and photographs of the city's narcs to Madison's student and underground press...
...people than Madison had been accustomed to, and he went down to Washington to lobby for some new buses. But the main issue confronting Madison--the issue which focused some national attention on Madison this summer--is the trial of Karleton Armstrong who has acknowledged bombing the University of Wisconsin's Army Mathematics Research Center, long a target for antiwar agitation because research done there found wide application in the Indochina war, in 1970. A researcher was killed in the bombing, and Armstrong pleaded guilty of second-degree murder in exchange for the opportunity to present a political defense...
Except for an elite eight victory by a University of Wisconsin powerhouse, the ninth annual regatta was all Harvard...