Word: conventioners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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So long, it's been good to know ya. Attorney General Edwin Meese will be gone before the Democratic Convention, Bush sources hope. He'll resign just as soon as he has had a chance to mount a face-saving p.r. offensive against the impending report from Independent Counsel James...
Gender swipe. Texas State Treasurer Ann Richards, an excellent speaker with a biting wit, will keynote the Democratic Convention as living proof that gender is a Bush, not a Dukakis, hang-up. She will also stake her claim as a real Texan, not one whose "residence" is a Houston hotel...
Read invest as the new Democratic code word for spend; rarely have so many potentially budget-busting programs been separated by so little punctuation. Dukakis is the apostle of "targeted economic development," while Jackson has . stressed creating public service jobs to rebuild America's "infrastructure." The platform neglects to explain...
Liberal Protestants have long been among the most ardent supporters of a woman's right to abortion. Consider the Rev. Howard Moody of Manhattan's Judson Memorial Church. In 1967, more than five years before the U.S. Supreme Court struck down state laws that prohibited abortions, the Baptist pastor organized...
Next month the policymaking General Convention of the Episcopal Church (2.7 million members) will consider a resolution that decries casual abortions and their high numbers, now put at 1.5 million a year, while retaining a "moral option for termination of pregnancy" in some extreme circumstances, such as rape and incest...