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...President come up here to make these rulings? Why did that happen?" Implying that Carter had sent Mondale to end the filibuster, Abourezk declared, "I have been told... that all governments lie ... There is one thing I never thought would happen, and that is that Jimmy Carter would lie." Stung, Mondale told the Senate he knew nothing of the plans to shut off the filibuster until he arrived at the Senate that morning. He said there had been no White House deal, adding, "There is nothing more sacred to me or to the President than our integrity...
...riots were deeply mortifying to the Communists, especially since they took place in Bologna, which the party has always pointed to as a paradigm of how it would work within a pluralistic society. Stung by the protests, Bologna party leaders suspected Italy's secret service, the CIA or other foreign intelligence outfits of manipulating extremists in order to discredit the Communists. Party leaders are especially bitter about a Parisian manifesto signed by 26 leftist intellectuals, including Writer Jean-Paul Sartre, accusing the Italian party of brutally putting down the students in Bologna...
...first notable victim of the exile policy was Balladeer-Poet Wolf Biermann, 40, who was refused permission to re-enter East Germany last November after a tour in the West. Government officials, who charged Biermann with "defamation" of East Germany abroad, had evidently been stung by some of the jabbing questions raised in his irony-laden songs. The government's action provoked an unprecedented storm of protest, led by twelve prominent East German writers and artists. Many of those who signed the petition for Biermann's readmission were either coerced into withdrawing their names or fired from their...
...Stung by Lance's attack, Ribicoff and Percy, who several weeks ago had championed his cause, stumbled onto the defensive. They claimed the Campbell allegation had somehow leaked to the Atlanta newspaper; they had not intended to talk to the press at all when they visited the President, but someone on his White House staff had told them they should meet the press waiting at the White House as they emerged from seeing Carter. They had only answered reporters' questions, they said, and had denied that Campbell had given the committee any affidavit, as the Atlanta paper reported...
...campaign, former U.S. Attorney Stokes called a press conference to complain that he had given the FBI a full report. The report, he said, should have been forwarded by Carter's transition team to the Ribicoff committee. "Some members of the Carter Administration withheld this information," said Stokes. Stung by accusations that he had prematurely closed the case, Stokes was clearly eager to shift the blame. "Why should I burn," he asked rhetorically, "while this Administration fiddles...