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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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
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