Word: democratic
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...Turkey. From the North Atlantic's Second Fleet, planes could strike the mammoth Soviet naval facilities on the Kola Peninsula or dispatch amphibious landing forces to Norway to help blunt a Red Army invasion. One advantage of relying on carrier-based power, according to Senator Gary Hart, a Colorado Democrat who chairs the Military Construction and Stockpiles Subcommittee, is that "we may be evicted [from land airbases] with a change of government, or not be permitted to operate even in support of a NATO ally under certain circumstances...
...Madison Heights, a Detroit suburb. Two years later he was elected mayor. The father of five and a practicing attorney, Geralds attracted attention by sponsoring a town ordinance that made parents liable to jail sentences or fines if their negligence contributed to criminal acts by their children. In 1974 Democrat Geralds parlayed his reputation for rectitude into a seat in the state house of representatives, which he won comfortably; he was re-elected two years later...
Geralds' case has prompted soul-searching on the part of legislators, who have suddenly discovered that they are a very fallible lot. Another legislator, also a Democrat, has admitted to receiving $5,000 from a dog-racing promoter in early 1977, eleven weeks before introducing a bill to legalize that sport. He has been asked to resign, but has not done...
...strategy of submitting the three sales proposals to Congress as a package deal. The President hoped to get congressional approval for all three sales−or, if necessary, to end up with no sales at all. But some lawmakers objected to his tactics. Frank Church, the Idaho Democrat who will be the next chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, complained to Secretary of State Cyrus Vance that the "linking" of the three items "violates the intent and spirit of congressional review procedure...
Says Connecticut Democrat William Cotter, a member of the House Ways and Means Committee, which writes tax legislation: "This is the issue, inflation. I'm one of those who goes home every weekend, and I find that people are fearful. They tell me that hamburger cost $1.29 last week, and now it's $1.69." Adds Ways and Means Chairman Al Ullman: "When people realize that every dollar of a tax cut is another dollar of deficit, and when they relate that to inflation, I think that by and large they would rather have less cuts and therefore less...