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Because the new Congess elected Tuesday would preside over a possible deadlock, analysts say a Carter-Mondale victory would not be guaranteed. Democrats now control both houses, but their rivals expect to gain ground on November 4. Even if the Democrats retain their majorities--as they probably will--the GOP could gain enough key House seats to deny them the 26 Democratic delegations Carter would need for a clear victory. All eyes would then shift to the other side of the Capitol, where regardless of a likely Republican net gain the Democrats will remain in power, and Mondale would have...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Breaking The Deadlock | 11/3/1980 | See Source »

...your dealings with Congress, might you establish a procedure somewhat similar to the question period in the British Parliament, in which a Cabinet officer-or even you yourself-would go before Congess to answer questions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Carter: I Look Forward to the Job | 1/3/1977 | See Source »

...flagrant violation of academic freedom. The department's invocation of a Joe McCarthy era law forbidding foreign communists entry into the United States unless they are granted an ineligibility waiver, as justification for not giving Giorgio Napolitano a visa, is an example of the purest form of bureaucratic nonsense. Congess should certainly repeal the law in question, since denying communists entry into this country on the grounds that they represent a danger to the national interest does nothing to insure national security. But, more importantly, the law itself is an invalid excuse for the State Department's behavior. All that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New McCarthyism At the State Department | 10/1/1975 | See Source »

...inevitable red rosebud, Nehru stumped Travancore for six days on foot, by Cadillac and in motor launches, making 25 speeches a day. He met fishermen in thatched huts, cardamom pickers in the spice groves, farmers in their rice fields. Altogether he drew 3,000,000 to his scheduled Congess Party meetings. Everywhere he kept up a bitter tirade against India's Communists. "Look at their flag!" he cried. "They have copied the Russian flag. Very extraordinary . . . My mind fails to grasp why that flag should be imported into India, and used as a party symbol . . . This is a type...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: A Straight Fight | 2/22/1954 | See Source »

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