Word: danforth
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...beast to ground. In both the House and Senate, committees have voted to reduce drastically the commission's powers. After the Senate Commerce Committee voted 15 to 0 last week to restrict the agency's authority and require it to submit to semiannual review, Missouri Republican John Danforth said: "If this doesn't stop them, I don't know what will...
...with searing eyewitness accounts of mass starvation. Three U.S. Senators, the first American officials to visit the Cambodian capital of Phnom-Penh since the fall of Lon Nol, testified before Edward Kennedy's Senate Judiciary Committee that famine and disease threatened to extinguish the entire Cambodian people. Republican John Danforth of Missouri said he and his colleagues had visited camps in Thailand that were simply "ground with people strewn over it." Danforth argued that "hundreds of thousands of people [are] at death's door. We saw people who couldn't walk 100 yards." Said Democrat James Sasser of Tennessee...
...officials were obviously more concerned about preventing food from falling into the hands of the Khmer Rouge insurgents than they were with saving hundreds of thousands of Cambodians from starvation and death. Condemning the obstructionist tactics that have thus far limited relief supplies to a fraction of the need, Danforth observed: "If a government is determined to murder its own people, I don't know how to stop...
Oppenheimer, Richard C. Marius, director of expository writing, and Henry C. Moses, dean of freshmen, speaking at a Danforth Center-sponsored discussion on "The Teaching of Freshmen." concluded that two major problems of the first year are the lack of adequate freshmen conselling and the combination of young, inexperienced section leaders and aggressive students...
...lack of supervision over young teachers," Oppenheimer said, adding that although there is some videotaping of sections there is no formal training program for section leaders. The high turnover of teaching fellows is one reason for the absence of such a program, Dean K. Whitla, director of the Danforth Center, said yesterday...