Word: makeing
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Congressional reaction to the policy reversal was largely positive. "This will help make it clear to one and all, at home and abroad, that the U.S. will have nothing to do with the Khmer Rouge," said Representative Stephen Solarz, a New York Democrat. It seems likely that the Senate will follow the lead of the House and approve the Administration's request for $7 million in overt aid to the two non-Khmer Rouge factions of the resistance, one headed by former Cambodian head of state Prince Norodom Sihanouk, the other by former Prime Minister Son Sann. Some officials...
...they voted to high office than a simple act of contrition and a refund. Bill Morris, former chairman of the state's Independent-Republican party, summed up the dismay: "I think Minnesota now has 1 1/2 Senators . . . I think most of us voted for him to serve millions -- not make them." Some G.O.P. officials are urging Durenberger to step down by July 31 so that a special election could be held in November. Durenberger could then seek a vote of confidence by running in that race...
Before its Aug. 3 recess, the full Senate is almost certain to follow the ethics committee recommendation and denounce Durenberger for bringing the chamber into "dishonor and disrepute." Durenberger may feel that by enduring a moment of shame and making restitution he puts things right with the world and deserves to retain a place of honor in it. If so, he is ignoring an elementary principle of political morality: those who make the laws are not above them...
...informal seminar on the future of magazine design. Says graphics director Nigel Holmes, who arranged the event: "I thought we should reflect a bit on what Rudy has been doing to evolve the look of TIME. It was a way of educating ourselves about the efforts we make every week to invent the best possible way of communicating stories...
...after leaving office in 1969, even declined to write his memoirs. Alienated by that flintiness -- and by the war -- Rusk's son Richard fled home in 1970 for a succession of dead-end jobs in Alaska. He returned 14 years later with a tape recorder and a determination to make his father talk. The result is an affecting mix of diplomatic memory and filial rediscovery...