Word: calling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kennedy has never actively helped Brooke's opponents. But sensing that Brooke is in serious trouble, Kennedy has taped TV commercials in behalf of Tsongas, who in turn backs Kennedy's national health insurance plan. If Brooke loses, he will have one small consolation: the Ethics Committee will probably call off its investigation. Otherwise, the probe will...
...upset by his loss of the job of Republican Senate leader by a single vote to Tennessee's Howard Baker. Griffin decided to retire from the Senate and return to his law practice in Traverse City. He then seemed to lose interest in the Senate, missing 216 roll-call votes last year, which placed him in a tie for the chamber's fourth worst attendance record...
Levin pokes fun at Griffin's insistence that his roll-call record is not a fair measure of his effectiveness. Had he shown up more often, says Levin, "he would have voted the wrong way anyway." Campaigning for Levin, Vice President Walter Mondale told voters they need "two Senators who want to be there, who are planning on working for six years, who are excited about...
...completing the treaty's remaining 5%, that will require what U.S. diplomats call "end game trade-offs." One major example is the deadly accurate cruise missile, which the U.S. developed to offset ominous Soviet advantages in rocket size and power. Moscow had insisted that SALT II impose a 1,500-mile-range limit on cruises launched from planes; this would keep much of the Soviet Union beyond the weapon's reach. In September, however, the Russians indicated that they would drop this demand if a strict 360-mile ceiling were placed on the range of cruises fired from the ground...
...deals with the Soviets' Backfire bomber must also be decided. While many American experts privately agree with Moscow that, strictly speaking, the Backfire is not a strategic system and thus need not be part of SALT, some experts strongly dispute this. Among the other unresolved issues is something experts call "fractionalization," or the number of warheads each missile can carry. Fearing that Soviet monster rockets like the SS-18, for which the U.S. has no counterpart, could eventually be loaded with dozens of warheads, Washington is pressing for a limit of ten to 14 per missile. For their part...