Word: statements
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...went the TV lights?and into the paneled Judiciary Committee hearing room. There was a hush in the audience and then an excited buzz. Kennedy walked quickly to his seat and rapped the committee into session. With his half-rimmed glasses perched on his nose, he read an opening statement in a sure, powerful voice, but lapsed into the stammering, wandering style that sometimes makes his questions or unrehearsed remarks seem relatively incoherent. Said he at one point to the witnesses: "The case we, uh, that has to be made, and I'd like to see what each...
...something that only a President can exploit. Ted Kennedy, in a speech at Washington's Georgetown University, complained that the Carter Administration's proffered $7 million in aid was inadequate to prevent starvation in Cambodia. The White House, however, had already called in TV cameras for a statement that President Carter would deliver in person less than two hours after Kennedy spoke: the Administration had rounded up not $7 million but $69 million to avert famine in that Southeast...
Connally's statement predictably evoked howls of outrage from friends of Israel, for whom "self-determination" is a synonym for an independent Palestinian state. They denounced it as capitulation to oil blackmail. Rita Hauser, a prominent New York Republican, quit her post as top Jewish adviser in Connally's campaign. Philadelphia Republican Mayoral Candidate David Marston publicly snubbed the Texan by refusing to be photographed with...
...refinery production, Exxon's revenues increased 30%, to $20.6 billion, compared with $15.9 billion in last year's third quarter. Net income soared 118% to $1.1 billion. Earnings per share jumped from $1.18 to $2.60, but Garvin failed even to mention that bullish news in his statement...
...opening statement Tuesday, Thomas J. Mundy Jr, Suffolk County assistant district attorney, said he would prove that the football players, who were in the Zone celebrating the end of the 1976 season, and a group of black men engaged in a series of increasingly violent confrontations in the early hours of Nov. 16 that led to the stabbing of Puopolo...