Word: clark
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IOWA (June 6). The Republican Party's conservative and moderate factions are competing for the nomination to oppose Democratic Senator Dick Clark. Ahead in the polls so far is Roger Jepsen, 49, a former state senator and two-term Lieutenant Governor who campaigns as "the right Republican." He is opposed to abortion, gun control and the Panama Canal treaties. Carrying the G.O.P. banner of moderation is Maurice Van Nostrand, 53, an ally of popular Governor Robert Ray. Van Nostrand says that a Jepsen-Clark contest would lead to a Republican defeat of Goldwater proportions...
Among these laws is the Clark amendment, a post-Viet Nam measure that prevents the President from sending military aid to Angola. On May 1, CIA Director Admiral Stansfield Turner and David Aaron, Brzezinski's deputy at the National Security Agency, visited Senator...
...Dick Clark, the Iowa Democrat who had introduced the measure in 1976. They asked his advice on a plan by which the U.S. could channel aid to one of the anti-Neto guerrilla factions in Angola?presumably to pressure the Luanda government to put a tighter rein on both its Cuban and Katangese guests. After some thought, Clark concluded that the scheme would violate the law and that he would oppose...
Carter emphasized last week that he has "no intention" of getting involved militarily in Africa and that he will not ask Congress to repeal the Clark amendment. But because of the "very tight constraints" on his conduct of foreign policy, he has ordered the State Department to make a study of the statutes that restrict his power. He has not decided on a plan of action, but he obviously wants greater flexibility to provide economic and military aid when he thinks the need is there...
...Stranger Is Watching. Clark...