Question on ASEAN stumped Hegseth at Senate hearing. What is it and why is it important? Dutch delve into family pasts as the names of accused Nazi collaborators released AP Photography A train station was once the pride of Syria’s capital. Some see it as a...
A Mississippi judge promised not to implement a no-strike order this week while the Legislature tries to come up with a salary package to end wildcat teacher walkouts.
Sen. Jesse Helms (R-N.C.) questioning chief arms negotiator Max Kampelman in the second day of Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearings on the treaty, reiterated his concern that the U.S.-Soviet agreement eliminates short- and medium-range missiles but not their warheads. Helms has denounce...
WASHINGTON —Casual drug users “ought to be taken out and shot,” Los Angeles Police Chief Daryl F. Gates told a Senate hearing Wednesday on the first anniversary of the Bush Administration’s war on drugs. Gates, discussing his comment to the Senate Judiciary Committee, said his harsh asses...
THE SEAT BELT BILLS The Legislature is considering four bills that would require California motorists to wear seat belts. The three Senate bills are scheduled for their first hearing today before the Transportation committee. Features of Foran Bill Brown-Deddeh Bills The Legislation (SB50) (AB27/...
Law enforcement authorities have been using informants at least since Judas Iscariot provided information to chief priests and elders on Jesus for 30 pieces of silver. Nearly 2,000 years later, Joseph Valachi’s informing, carried out in dramatic televised Senate hearings in 1963, lifted the curta...
At the same time, Speaker Willie Brown (D-San Francisco) postponed until next week today’s scheduled advisory vote on Lungren by a 19-member committee. And the Speaker predicted that a floor vote on Lungren’s confirmation would not come until after the Senate completes its hearings Feb. ...
“It’s a very scholarly and reasoned gut decision,” said Nielsen, a law-and-order Republican who served three terms in the state Senate before his appointment to the board by Wilson in 1992. A lot of it is instinct, he added, often guided by the “ambience” of the hearing: “Do ...
Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan —President Chiang Ching Kuo today decreed the end of martial law imposed by his Nationalist Party 38 years ago when it fled to this island after the communists took over mainland China. The official Central News Agency quoted Chiang as saying in a decree that ...
Even Sen. Daniel J. Evans (R-Wash.), whose decision to step down at the end of this year was widely viewed as a repudiation of the Senate, said he still reveres the institution. “I’ve got great respect for it,” he said. “My dismay is because I really respect it so much and...