Word: antiwar
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Even as the President was trying to line up bipartisan support, the Democratic leadership was leading the fight to give sanctions more time. The antiwar factions in both houses fell in behind nearly identical resolutions drafted by two presidential hopefuls: House majority leader Richard Gephardt and Georgia Senator Sam Nunn, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee. Nunn, with his hard-line reputation on most other military issues, was particularly important for attracting wavering Democrats...
When the Senate opened debate on Thursday, majority leader George Mitchell laid out the antiwar, pro-sanctions position. Warned Mitchell: "The grave decision for war is being made prematurely." In the House, Gephardt stressed that the opponents of war were not friends of Iraq. "The only debate here in the Congress is over whether we slowly strangle Saddam with sanctions or immediately pursue a military solution," he insisted. "The choice is really over tactics." Robert Michel, the House G.O.P. leader, countered that those seeking to rein in the President's war power were creating a "brass choir of indecision, doubt...
...President's aggressive lobbying, the Democratic leadership took a more hands-off approach toward rank-and-file Congressmen. House Speaker Tom Foley argued that arm-twisting was not the right way to influence colleagues on what he termed "a matter of conscience," but that deferential stance probably cost antiwar Democrats precious votes...
...antiwar movement was forming, though not in large numbers. A group of protesters in the Senate gallery were arrested for disrupting the debate on the war. A coalition of Protestant leaders said, "We call upon the churches and upon the nation to fast and pray for peace, to pursue every means available of public dialogue and popular expression to find a way out of certain catastrophe." Bishop Walter F. Sullivan of Virginia said Catholics in the military should consider laying down their arms if war breaks...
...demonstration was generally peaceful, but windows were broken at a federal office building in Boston. In the scuffle which followed, one antiwar activist was arrested...