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...95th Congress, Carter was able to count on the occasional, indispensable services of Minority Leader Howard Baker. Without Baker, the Panama Canal treaties would not have been ratified, the Turkish arms embargo lifted or the three-way Middle East weapons sale approved. But Baker may no longer be able to come to the aid of the President. No sooner were the election results apparent than conservative Republicans started plotting to take over at least some of the leadership positions in the Senate, including a challenge by Helms for on-floor leadership. Taking no chances, Baker dashed back to Washington...
...parity on crop supports were unrealistic and inflationary. She told women's groups that she favored the Equal Rights Amendment but was against extending the time limit for its ratification. She told teachers' groups that she opposed a separate U.S. Department of Education. She supported the Panama Canal treaties, which were unpopular in Kansas. Speaking from her experience as a former aide to retiring Kansas Senator James Pearson, she contends that the Senate is a bloated "bureaucracy in itself," loaded with too many staff people who isolate Senators from their constituents...
Telling voters that "this time the choice is clear," Jepsen had hit hard at Clark's liberal record. The Democrat was denounced for being pro-union and for backing costly Government social-welfare programs, gun control and the Panama Canal treaties. He paid dearly for his liberal stand on abortion. Right-to-life groups distributed hundreds of thousands of brochures that depicted a fetus and urged votes against Clark. Said a Jepsen aide: "Inflation and taxes really were the overriding things. People are just tired of them...
THAT IS the only mention of Panama, of Canal Zone and right-wing Southern paranoia fame, in these 175 pages, but it is the crux of the book. Chet suffers from memory loss; Catherine hires a private detective to inform him of what he did during the day so that eventually he might get it back. Maybe, then, you can go home again--but what if you can't remember home, or what it was, like? What if you can't remember when, where, or if you were married? In a minor key, this translates into not remembering...
...abortion rights. But there is the other side of Ed Brooke; the manipulative politician with an abysmal consumer voting record who has garnered tens of thousands of dollars in contributions from medical associations, realtors, bankers and insurance interests. There is the Ed Brooke who waffled on the Panama Canal Treaties and who favors a moratorium on the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks. Finally, there is the Ed Brooke whose own personal finances are characterized by improprieties if not illegalities; and who has sponsored such incompetent (if not blatantly corrupt) men as former Federal District Judge Willie Davis, former U.S. Atty. James...