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State Sen. Burt Cohen, a Democrat, initiated the campaign for the plaque to honor New Hampshire men who volunteered to fight Franco in the Spanish Civil War over 60 years ago. In 1937, sponsored by the Communist Party, a dozen residents of New Hampshire joined the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. They crossed the Pyrenees by foot, sacrificing food, limbs, and sometimes their lives so the Spanish Republic might survive Franco's military coup. England, France and the United States refused to aid the legitimate democratic republic, while Germany and Italy generously donated modern guns, tanks and bombs to the fascist side...
...environmentalists, of course, it's Bush's energy Rasputins who are the extremists - the sputtering economy and the California crisis are just the excuses. After the CO2 turnabout, Rep. George Miller, a California Democrat on the House Resources Committee, called Bush on the carpet...
...those surveyed oppose Vilsack's plan to bring in more immigrants. "Do we really want to be another California, with all of its immigrant problems?" says Roger Harrison, 68, a retired lawyer from Marshalltown. Given such opposition, Vilsack's move is risky for the first-term Governor, the first Democrat to lead the state in 30 years. But Vilsack, whose approval rating is 65%, says he has little choice. Young people have been fleeing since the farm crisis of the mid-'80s, and there aren't enough bodies in the pipeline to replace the 368,000 soon-to-retire baby...
...White House Response Ford was very remarkable in the way he treated me; he never once complained. I remember thinking, "I ought to be somewhat more gentle." But I was a liberal Democrat at the time. I cared very much about getting Ford out and Carter...
...Nelson has been in the senate for all of two months, but he knows what the George W. Bush treatment feels like. Not just the win-a-little-nickname treatment (Bush dubbed him Nellie) but a far more punishing one--the kind that can make a politician sweat. A Democrat and former Governor of Nebraska, Nelson was onstage with Bush at the Omaha Civic Center last Wednesday when the President set about tickling the crowd of almost 4,000. Pointing out both Nelson and his Republican colleague, Chuck Hagel, Bush declared, "I know that when it comes to doing...