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Heflin's defection was particularly damaging to Bork's chances for confirmation, since White House officials were hoping to use a "yes" vote from the former chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court to attract other conservative Southern Democrats to Bork's side...
...miss owing to the length of much of the testimony -- Specter is the least predictable of the three fence-sitters. Bork lobbyists conceded last week that Arizona Democrat Dennis DeConcini may be "gone," likely to join six other Democrats considered certain to reject the judge. Forecasters think that Alabama's Howell Heflin will be the only Democrat on the panel to vote for Bork, joining five certain Republican supporters...
Despite Bork's gruff but courteous style and ability to turn the hearings into a legal seminar, the "confirmation conversion" issue could keep him from winning Senate approval. The three swing men -- Republican Specter and Democrats DeConcini and Howell Heflin of Alabama -- expressed reservations about Bork's ever changing views. "There are those who raise the issue that your changing of your position," Heflin told Bork, "came only at a time when a carrot was being dangled before your eyes." Replied Bork: "I can assure you that that's not the way I operate...
...Republicans, South Carolina's Strom Thurmond and Utah's Orrin Hatch. Later, when the issue reaches the Senate floor, Minority Leader Robert Dole will head the fight on Bork's behalf. The three key swing votes on the committee: Republican Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania and Democrats Howell Heflin of Alabama and Dennis DeConcini of Arizona. Last week DeConcini still did not know what to make of the controversial jurist. "I have read so much," he told TIME. "Sometimes he sounds like a moderate. At other times he seems -- well, his approach seems so odd. I think he and the nation...
...Badham's measure has been trumped by a rider from Republican Congressman Herbert ("Sonny") Callahan of Alabama, who proposed that the Pentagon reimburse Dravo for losses incurred between last October and such time as the repeal is signed into law. Callahan too has reason to be sympathetic: Dravo is a major employer in his district around Mobile. The Dravo PAC has also provided him with $4,000 in recent years...