Word: bipartisanism
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Innocuous enough, at first glance anyway. But last week a quiet imbroglio between the National Endowment for Democracy, a bipartisan organization funded by Congress, which helped pay for the bookselection process, and the International Freedom to Publish Committee, a unit of the Association of American Publishers, which appointed the selectors, developed into a nasty politico-literary dustup as the NED charged that the list was philosophically "one-sided." The IFP accused the NED of would-be censorship and then announced that it would return the $12,000 it had already received from the group and refuse the remainder...
Despite his party's six-seat majority in the Senate, Pennsylvania Republican John Heinz predicts that "the compromise is not going to be an easy sell." Warns Democrat James Sasser of Tennessee: "I would see almost no bipartisan support." Even if Dole can keep all his colleagues in line, which is by no means certain, the plan faces a more formidable obstacle: the Democrats have a 69-seat majority in the House, where there is strong sentiment to preserve domestic programs and hold the military to zero growth. Despite the willingness of Reagan and Regan to compromise with Senate Republicans...
...when in November they launched a series of daily protests and arrests at the South African embassy Washington to draw attention to apartheid and to U.S. policy toward that country. Those protests have propelled South Africa to the forefront of current foreign policy debate and have helped to win bipartisan Congressional support for proposed economic sanctions against South Africa...
...would much prefer to have an uncontroversial job like director of the National Gallery of Art. But he went on to defend the Administration's military buildup as well as the controversial Star Wars plan. Later, Senators Joseph Biden, Gary Hart, William Cohen and Nancy Kassebaum gave a bipartisan critique of the Administration's defense and foreign policies, amid some jovial byplay between Hart and Biden on the approaching 1988 presidential campaign. After a vigorous exchange on policy, several of the visitors expressed surprise at how prominent an issue defense was in the U.S. Said Rowland C. Frazee, chairman...
Seeking a way to rattle the chessboard, McFarlane reasoned that a defensive research program would attract bipartisan support at home and might someday be useful in Geneva. He mentioned these possibilities to Reagan, knowing he would be receptive. But McFarlane was still a relatively junior player. Though he quickly persuaded Clark that the new policy should be considered, he needed another ally of standing, one who shared Reagan's moral distaste for those cocked nuclear pistols. That ally turned out to be Admiral James Watkins, Chief of Naval Operations. Late in 1982 McFarlane and Watkins consulted informally. The product...