Word: controls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
...direct-mail techniques advanced by George McGovern in 1972 have enabled fund raisers to reach prospects classified according to their feelings about specific and often emotional issues. The undisputed champion of this technique is Richard Viguerie who last year raised $30 million for antiabortion, anti-gun-control, anti-ERA and other activists...
...increasing outlays faster than the state's economic growth. Massachusetts overwhelmingly approved a complex measure designed to prevent sharp boosts in residential property taxes. Declared Arizona State Senator Ray Rottas, the G.O.P. sponsor of his state's winning proposal: "The message is simple. Taxpayers want rampant spending brought under control...
...seat state legislature. In the battle for the remaining seat, from the rural area around Gettysburg, Incumbent Democrat Kenneth Cole and Republican Donald Moul, director of the National Trotting and Pacing Association, each got exactly 8,551 votes. The tie made it impossible to settle such crucial matters as control of the speaker's job and the appointment of committee chairmen. Should the tie hold after a recount, the candidates will settle the contest by drawing lots from a paper bag. Complained Cole's wife: "People in a democracy are entitled to more than a poker game...
...primary concern in the West about the Shah's newest crisis was the potential threat to Iran's control over the Persian Gulf, the funnel for much of the oil destined for Japan, Europe, Israel and the U.S. Iraq, which got the Shah to stop Iranian support for a rebellion of its Kurdish separatists in 1975, feared the revival of ethnic and tribal tensions in the region. Fearful that a successful move to topple the Shah would unsettle other monarchies in the area, Saudi Arabia's King Khalid called on Arab nations to give the Shah all possible support...