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...Democrats' way of expressing anger over the President's economic priorities." an aide to Sen. Alan Cranston (D-Calit) who registered a "no" vote-said earlier this week...
Under pressure from California S and Ls and California Senator Alan Cranston, the Federal Home Loan Bank Board an nounced a second round of bidding on June 17. Despite BankAmerica's offer to back financially a California-only merg er, the board announced that the highest bid of the three California S and Ls that participated was still $143 million lower than Citicorp's offer...
...would recapture $4.3 billion of that. Still, a drive to delete the withholding provision, led by Republican Robert Kasten of Wisconsin and Democrat Ernest Rollings of South Carolina, lost by only three votes. The withholding proposal would have lost if such liberal Democrats as Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts, Alan Cranston of California and Christopher Dodd of Connecticut had not voted against the deletion amendment...
Reagan and Clark hurriedly telephoned key Congressmen and Senators to brief them on the plan. Many agreed with California's Democratic Senator Alan Cranston that the move was dangerous but the U.S. should probably "shoulder some of the risk" for ensuring a peaceful solution in Lebanon. Said Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Charles Percy of Illinois: "We are all reluctant to commit U.S. troops, but it should be considered if that is the only way to evacuate the P.L.O." But there was also considerable wariness about placing American servicemen in jeopardy. Democrat John
...runners for the party's presidential nomination in 1984. Although Kennedy outshone his rival by several watts, Mondale drew raves by delivering a much better speech than was expected. The four other candidates who spoke-Senators Hart, John Glenn of Ohio, Fritz Rollings of South Carolina and Alan Cranston of California-turned in respectable performances but failed to fire up the crowd. Glenn looked on the bright side: "I didn't see anyone asleep." The fifth hopeful, former Governor Reubin Askew of Florida, chose not to make an address, pursuing instead the sort of quiet, behind-the-scenes...