Word: arguments
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...late. Dingell and Udall had zealously enlisted the support of leading Congressmen for the toothless Bingham substitute. One argument with powerful appeal to other committee chairmen: if the House can take away our powers today, it can take away yours tomorrow. When the measure came to the House floor last week, New Hampshire Republican James Cleveland decried the arrangements worked out by the old-line chairmen: "They sound to me as if they were agreements between feudal baronies drawn up away from the public eye ... Who are the parties to these treaties? What fiefdoms are they floating around...
...merely a "Soviet tool"--simply do not bear up to scrutiny. The use of violence against civilians did not prevent our negotiating with the National Liberation Front in Vietnam, nor of recognizing the necessity of bringing Zimbabwean guerrillas into a political settlement in Rhodesia--nor, incidentally, is such an argument invoked against our dealing with Israel, which employs considerable violence against Palestinian and other Arab civilian populations (which accounted, for example, for 2000 Palestinian and Lebanese lives in Israel's 1978 invasion of Lebanon...
Breaking with custom, this year's form does not pose questions to the "Head of Household." Women's libbers won their argument that such a term implies an inequality between husband and wife. Questions, therefore, will now be asked of the resident "in whose name the home is owned or rented...
Last week, according to police testimony at a preliminary hearing, Harris arrived at Tarnower's six-acre estate carrying a .32-cal. Harrington and Richardson revolver in a box. She told police that she and Tarnower had a violent argument in his bedroom. "Get out! You're crazy!" he shouted at her. They struggled. Harris was severely bruised on her upper lip and left arm, and Tarnower was shot four times...
During his closing argument, Defense Attorney Sam Amirante tried to create sympathy for his client by citing Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and quoting Jekyll's anguished lament: "If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also." But the most emotional moments came during the state's summation, when, one by one, Prosecutor Terry Sullivan placed photographs of the 22 identified victims on a wooden easel and described each one in detail. The next day, Chief Prosecutor William Kunkle snatched up the photos...