Congress Trip Costs Rise for Foreign Travel in 1976
Congress spent over $2.4 million on overseas travel in 1976, driven by military and embassy-paid expenses not fully reported. The record details liquor and meals aboard navy planes, luxury car rentals for Rep. Scheuer, a Kenya safari by car, a Geneva trip by Spence, a Johannesburg charter flight for Percy, and the Magna Carta escort that went unreported.
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Washington
Congress
Congressional
Congressional Quarterly
State, Treasury
Defense Departments
James H. Scheuer
D-N.y
London
Rolls
Scheuer
Critics defend congressional junkets amid travel costs
The piece notes lavish abroad trips by lawmakers and aides, detailing liquor and expense items, then cites lawmakers like Fried ersdorf Derwinski Javits Solarz defending overseas travel as beneficial for lobbying and legislation, with calls that travel is a duty and a badge of honor.
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Edward J. Derwinski
R.-Ill
Jacob K. Javits
R-N.y
Stephen J. Solarz
D-N.y
Congress
Derwinski
The
House
World Psychiatric Meet to Debate Soviet Political Hospitals
Thousands of psychiatrists gather in Honolulu for the sixth World Psychiatric Association congress where Soviet use of confinement to punish dissent will be debated. The issue draws on human rights and medical ethics as activists push for action against political abuse in psychiatry.
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Honolulu
The
World Psychiatric Assn
Mexico City
Congress
U.S
Association
Soviet Union
KGB
Vladimir Bukovsky
Zhores Medvedev
Leonid Plyushch
Bloch-Reddaway
Russia
Andrei Snezhnevsky
Britain
Royal College of Psychiatry
Australian Psychiatric Society
American Psychiatric Assn
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By Mark Gruenberg
Europe
Coss
Sndi
House International Relations Committee
Navy
VC 437
Middle East
Naples
Athens
Nairobi
Kenya
Floyd Spence
R-S.c
Geneva
Spence
Sen
Charles Percy
South Africa
Johannesburg
John W. Warner
Carl Albert
D-Okla
Maryland
Robert E. Bauman
Tip Baby
Tip
Mr. Tip
Jack Daniels Black
Canadian Club
Chivas Regal
Baccardi Rum
Albert
Max L. Friedersdorf
Ford
Friedersdorf
White House
Thomas E. Morgan
D-Pa
Senate
Republican Policy Committee
Committee On Legislation
Whees
Mr. O'Neill
By Anthony Lewis
Sidney Bloch
Oxford
Peter Reddaway
School of Economics
Alexander Argentov
Orthodox Church
Argentov
A. Mazikov
New York Times Service
Stride Rite
Killians
Lindale Plaza
Ss Fine Home Furnishings
Dens
Fiv
Sean
Prin, Og
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