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Tsongas' disillusionment began when 22 Democrats voted with the Republicans to sustain President Ford's veto of the jobs bill. For the first time, he realized the extent of power wielded by a President in league with a disciplined, albeit minority party, v. a mammoth but unruly majority in Congress. Advocating stronger party discipline, Tsongas became the spokesman for a group of dissident Democratic freshmen that last month persuaded Speaker Albert and Majority Leader O'Neill to sit down and discuss the problems of leadership. (To date, nothing but some good will has come...
...keys to the U.S. economy, because its fortunes affect the sales of lumber, steel, furniture, appliances and many other products. For the past two years, it also has been just about the sickest of all American industries. Last week it finally began flashing signals of a recovery, albeit a modest, slow and uneven...
ALMOST A YEAR after the Turkish invasion of Cyprus the United States is still reluctant to focus on the reason behind the snarl in the eastern Mediterranean: a foreign army has deprived a republic--albeit just a splinter of land--of its independence and territorial integrity. When Turkish forces began landing on Cyprus last July 20, the official American response glibly called these maneuvers minor military actions. A corridor of land spanning Nicosia, the Cypriot capital, and Kyrania, another large northern city, had been taken before the Turks agreed to rechannel their pursuit of, as they phrased it, "political...
Improvements in these areas are on the way. Congress has moved-albeit not very far-to tap the reservoir of talents the elderly have accumulated during their lives. It has approved $45 million for a variety of projects, including the Foster Grandparent Program, which pays oldsters for supervising dependent and neglected youngsters; $17.5 million for the Retired Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP), which pays out-of-pocket expenses to 100,000 involved in such community activities as entertaining the handicapped and visiting homebound patients; and a skimpy $400,000 for the Senior Corps of Retired Executives (SCORE), which reimburses some...
...movie is a fairly brutal character study up until the time Popeye finally, albeit tenuously, shakes off his habit. Then, as Doyle goes out for revenge, Frankenheimer changes gear smoothly into the sort of supercharged action adventure that gives memories of the original French Connection some stiff competition. Doyle and his French al lies track Charnier's minions to the ship yards, where they start a shooting match that ends with the threat of the cops getting drowned like water rats and Doyle getting crushed under the keel of a freighter. It is a flamboyant sequence, intended...