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...White House insisted that the fundamental question is the "responsibility of the President to exercise [his] constitutional power of appointment." But Senators of both parties were outraged. Texas Democrat Lloyd Bentsen fulminated that "the President's action is a form of tyranny, the tyranny to put down voices of dissent." Maryland Republican Charles Mathias professed himself "shocked" by Reagan's "callous insensitivity to the efforts of congressional leaders" who had been trying to work out a compromise. John Shattuck, an official of the American Civil Liberties Union, voiced a suspicion common among civil rights activists. Said...
However, the line between negative advertising so blatant that it infuriates voters and slightly less ham-handed ads that impress them is elusive. In Texas, Democratic Senator Lloyd Bentsen won re-election with the aid of a TV ad that pictured a frail old woman walking to her mailbox, finding it empty and staring at the camera in despair, while a voice accused Bentsen's opponent James Collins of plotting to wreck Social Security. Though Collins once advocated making Social Security voluntary, he now insists that he is avid to preserve the system. In Pennsylvania, Democrat Peter Kostmayer...
...Nigh (D) No Race ORE. Victor G. Atiyeh (R) No Race PA. Dick Thomburgh (R) John Heinz (R) R.I. J. Joseph Garrahy (D) * S.C. Richard W. Riley (D) No Race S.D. William J. Janklow (R) No Race TENN. Lamar Alexander (R) Jim Sasser (D) TEX. Mark White (D) Lloyd Bentsen (D) UTAH No Race Orrin G. Hatch (R) VT. Richard A. Snelling (R) Robert T. Stafford (R) VA. No Race Paul S. Trible Jr. (R) WASH. No Race Henry M. Jackson (D) W. VA. No Race Robert C. Byrd (D) WIS. Anthony S. Earl (D) William Proxmire...
Pressure to begin strategic arms talks has been building for months. It intensified last week when Henry Jackson, a leading Democratic hawk, and seven other influential Senators (Robert Byrd, Sam Nunn, Lloyd Bentsen, John Warner, Howard Baker, Richard Lugar and Wilham Cohen) circulated a bipartisan "Dear Colleague" letter, urging the U.S. to negotiate with the Soviets "a long-term mutual and verifiable nuclear forces freeze at equal and sharply reduced level of forces." The resulting resolution, signed within hours by 24 more Senators, was designed to counter a more radical measure introduced two weeks ago by Senators Edward Kennedy...
...postseason Cotton Bowl game from Dallas, where it has been played for the past 45 years. "They have more chance of moving the stadium than they do the game," declares John F. Scovell, president of the Cotton Bowl Athletic Association and a prominent Dallas real estate developer. Says Bentsen, who organized the theft attempt: "If it's a feud, it's a positive...