Word: congressman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...battled renegade guardsmen. Egged on by a Masaya mob that demanded the death of its prisoner, Sandinista troops summarily executed a 19-year-old informer who had admitted leading Somoza's assassination squads to the hideouts of at least 20 guerrillas during the civil war. New York Democratic Congressman John Murphy, a longtime friend of Somoza's, claimed that the Sandinistas were executing "thousands" of guardsmen and their families. In fact, the 3,000 guardsmen locked up in Modelo Prison at Tipitapa, 30 miles from Managua, insist that they have been well treated. Asserted the prison...
...prods the heads of Amex-listed companies to lobby, too. When the Amex co-sponsored a management conference in Washington last month, the 150 chief executives who came were urged to invite a Congressman to dinner. The Amex also invites two dozen or so of its company presidents to attend briefings held for businessmen by members of the White House senior staff every six weeks...
...admirers are right when they detect in Carter an honest, decent, compassionate man, his critics may also be correct in thinking him somehow fatally limited. Even a sympathetic observer like Massachusetts Congressman Robert Drinan remarks: "There is something missing in Carter, something intangible." Says Benjamin Hooks, executive director of the N.A.A.C.P.: "I like Mr. Carter. I respect...
...Thompson and Delaware's Pierre DuPont IV. There was also a spate of new Senators: New Jersey's Bill Bradley, Michigan's Don Riegle, Missouri's John Danforth, Pennsylvania's John Heinz III, Indiana's Richard Lugar and Maryland's Paul Sarbanes. Congressman Andrew Young was made U.N. ambassador by President Carter, who also named two others from the 200 to his original Cabinet: former Idaho Governor Cecil Andrus Interior Secretary and Joseph Califano HEW Secretary, a job he was fired from on July 19. Nancy Teeters moved up from her post...
...Manhattan Borough President Percy Sutton is chief executive officer of the fledgling company, founded in March, Ford is responsible for much of the daily operations. A graduate of Dartmouth and Harvard Law School, Ford at 27 became the youngest president of the Harlem Lawyers' Association. Onetime speechwriter for Sutton, Congressman Charles Rangel and Richard Hatcher, mayor of Gary, Ind., Ford commutes between Washington and New York City, where he is head of NOVA (New Opportunities for Voter Action), aimed at harnessing political clout for blacks. Says Sutton: "Ford has poise, balance, intelligence and is 'relevant' ... He's a comer...