Word: democratically
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Gary Hart bade farewell to his Senate years at a party in Washington last week and took steps toward two possible new careers. On the political track, the Colorado Democrat launched an exploratory committee for his 1988 presidential campaign. This week bookstores will begin stocking copies of Hart's first solo attempt at fiction, The Strategies of Zeus, an arms-control thriller. The book features a Vice President who manipulates his doddering Commander in Chief into secretly launching a killer satellite. The hero is a Montana-born arms negotiator who exudes an "aura of separateness (that) made him seem . . . strong...
...shocking that the chief intelligence officer of the U.S. Government seems to know less about this affair than the average American who reads the daily press," declared Democratic Congressman Stephen Solarz of New York. Contended Connecticut Democrat Samuel Gejdenson: "If Casey really knows as little as he tried to portray, he ought to be fired for incompetence. And if he knew more, he ought to be fired because the President instructed his people to be forthcoming." Casey had replied "I don't know" to so many questions that the answer began drawing laughter from some committee members. Said Pennsylvania Democrat...
...refusal to cooperate somehow seem heroic. "Despite my very strong desire to provide Congress with my recollection of the facts pertaining to this matter, counsel has advised me that I should avail myself of the protections provided by that same Constitution that I have fought to support and defend." Democrat Thomas Lantos pledged to contribute to an Ollie North defense fund being set up by Annapolis classmates, and Republican Robert Dornan, in praise of North's patriotism, paraphrased a rollicking Rudyard Kipling ditty: "He's Ollie this and he's Ollie that. Get 'im out of here, the brute...
...People ask me: 'Why are you helping these people?' Given that I'm a lifelong, liberal Democrat, why would I side with a bunch of fundamentalists? On this particular issue they're right," Strike told the Cornell Daily...
...which was scheduled to hold hearings Monday to investigate what might have been known by Casey and the CIA, which keeps close tabs on the contras and set up a Swiss bank account to receive money paid by Iran for U.S. arms. Says Vice Chairman Patrick Leahy, a Vermont Democrat: "I don't see how the money could be transferred, the logistics could be handled, the arrangements could be made, without the help of some people in the CIA." He added ominously, "There's no question that lies have been told by Administration officials." At the closed-door session, witnesses...