Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Congress has yielded to the narrow interests on energy issues time and time again." He asked his listeners to lobby their Congressmen to support the windfall profits tax on oil companies...
Hoan's was not the only voice raised against Hanoi last week. Earlier the regime had been stung by a remark by a member of a delegation of nine U.S. Congressmen who were journeying to Viet Nam to discuss the refugee situation. Massachusetts Democrat Robert Drinan told reporters the refugee exodus proved that Viet Nam was guilty of "one of the most fundamental violations of human rights in this century." The Vietnamese canceled the Congressmen's visit and reinstated it only after pleas from Washington...
...TIME correspondents and editors began gathering suggestions from Congressmen, religious leaders, educators, politicians and prominent citizens in every part of the nation. TIME tried especially to find leaders on the local and regional levels. As North Carolina Governor James B. Hunt remarked: "I think we've got the attitude in this country that Government has to do everything for people. My whole approach is 'Let's try to do it for ourselves on the local level.' " The magazine sought figures of integrity who have exerted a significant social or civic impact, regardless of politics or ideology. Boston College President...
...evidence of payoffs to U.S. Congressmen, officials and journalists by the Shah. The Washington embassy files were bare, with the exception of lists of people who received mundane things-champagne, perfume, caviar-for Christmas. However, we are determined to track down huge amounts of money which went to Washington, and we have asked the FBI to help us. Some $19 million was spent by the ex-Shah's secret police [SAVAK] in 1976-77. The FBI wants to know whether the Alien Registration Act has been violated, and we want to know what SAVAK Chief Mansur Rafizadeh did with...
...recommended that Pan Am be awarded a new route between Dallas-Fort Worth and London. Carter rejected the recommendation. Instead, he gave the route to Dallas-based Braniff Airways in what some critics thought was a blatant political bid for support of his energy program by Texas Congressmen. In short, though Pan Am's position is substantially strengthened by its majority holding, its merger with National is not yet guaranteed...