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Democrats in the Senate were blunter. "Except for his anti-Soviet reflexes, this President has no foreign policy," said Paul Tsongas of Massachusetts. Stormed Alan Cranston of California: "Reagan doesn't have a policy on nuclear nonproliferation. He doesn't have a policy on arms limitations. He's clearly groping for a Mideast policy. He has no human rights policy, and may never have one now. His policy on El Salvador-first he blew it up, then he blew it down. His policy on arms sales is to spew them everywhere. This Administration desperately needs a sense...
Lefever's worst liability was not ideology but his own unsteady regard for the truth. Democratic Whip Alan Cranston, a Foreign Relations Committee member, came out of the final closed hearing last week citing half a dozen instances in which Lefever had stretched the facts. Lefever denied, for instance, having said his opponents were "Communist inspired...
Last week he admitted that he had approached Nestle beforehand. Said Cranston: "That was a direct contradiction...
...word of the misstatements began to spread, Cranston counted the number of Lefever supporters in the full Senate dropping from 46 to 44, while opponents rose from 39 to 48. That was enough to sustain a filibuster against Lefever on the Senate floor, and probably enough to guarantee the failure of the nomination...
...President has no plans to abandon the appointment. "Just because Lefever's philosophy is not compatible with Chuck Percy's," asserts a Reagan aide, "doesn't mean you yank the nomination." Percy reportedly called the White House after the hearings to recommend just that course. Cranston and his fellow Democrats on the committee publicly suggested that Lefever withdraw himself from consideration-and threatened to further probe his links with Nestl...