Word: speakers
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...breakfast with the Democratic leaders, Carter was warned again by House Speaker Tip O'Neill and Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd to hold back on social legislation. Said Byrd: "We're not going to be trying to pass a lot of new programs." But Carter had long ago received that message, loud and clear. As evidence, HEW Secretary Joseph Califano last week revealed that the Administration intends to introduce only a modest national health plan this year. Carter had campaigned on a pledge to fight for a comprehensive medical insurance program, but his proposal would simply improve existing...
Most Boston players did not admire the performance. It brought into focus their criticism of Chinese musicianship: the inability to sustain rhythm and tempo over a long stretch. "You must maintain control if the excitement and beauty are to come out of the music itself," says Violinist Marylou Speaker, whose gift to the Peking Central Philharmonic was a metronome. "You sometimes hear amateur groups rushing the pace at home. The tendency is to tense up in a tough passage. When things got hard, Liu took off and was out of context with the music." Ozawa dealt with the same problem...
...Knesset's treatment of Carter, as it turned out, was much friendlier than that accorded Begin. Obstreperous deputies subjected the Premier to such prolonged heckling that at one time the Speaker had to plead: "Please, only one heckler at a time." Some hard-lining members of Begin's own Likud faction accused him of abandoning Israel's claims to the West Bank, while Communists shouted that the government was suppressing the Palestinians...
...this is a fair estimate of the cost," said Senate RepubIlican Leader Howard Baker, "it's a real bargain." Declared House Republican Leader John Rhodes: "I don't think it'll be a problem." Insisted House Speaker Tip O'Neill: "It's a cheap price." Joked a White House aide: "See, we got it for you wholesale...
DIED. Jamil M. Baroody, 73, longtime Saudi Arabian Ambassador to the U.N. and dean of that body's delegates; of cancer; in Manhattan. A Lebanese Christian by birth, Baroody joined the Saudi delegation to the U.N. at its first meeting in San Francisco in 1945. A loquacious speaker who enjoyed the complete confidence of King Faisal, he could turn bombastic, even pushy (literally), when defending his positions on Zionism and other matters, moving one of his colleagues, Ambassador George Bush, to describe the crusty diplomat as "an unguided missile...