Word: democratically
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Incoming New Mexico Governor Garrey Carruthers, a Republican, had made his intentions clear: "The first thing I want to see on my desk after I'm elected Governor is the paperwork necessary to restart the death penalty." Last week outgoing Governor Toney Anaya, a Democrat, made certain Carruthers would have to wait a while before ordering executions. In a dramatic move, Anaya commuted the sentences of all five men awaiting death in New Mexico. "For me to simply walk away now will make me as much an accomplice as others who would participate in their execution," said Anaya. A court...
...appointed a three-member "special review board" to study the role of the NSC in the conduct of foreign policy. Named chairman was John Tower, the former Republican Senator from Texas and more recently a U.S. arms negotiator. The other review-board members are former Senator Edmund Muskie, a Democrat, and Brent Scowcroft, who served as Gerald Ford's National Security Adviser...
...amount of Administration self-investigation is likely to satisfy Congress. In a letter to Meese that put on the record what many other legislators had demanded, a House Judiciary Subcommittee requested the appointment of a Watergate-style independent counsel. Subcommittee Chairman John Conyers, a Michigan Democrat, bluntly challenged the Attorney General's ability to conduct an impartial probe, citing among other things "your closeness to the President." The White House is so far resisting calls for such a special prosecutor. But as more information emerges each day, it becomes less likely that the affair can be concluded simply through Meese...
...DOESN'T MATTER whether Reagan knew." These words seem to be coming out of every Democrat's mouth in response to the ever-widening scandal over the arm sales to Iran and the secret funding for the Contras. And in a sense, the Democrats are right. If Reagan didn't know, he clearly didn't want to; and anyone who is that out of touch with his staff's maneuverings certainly has no business in the Oval Office...
...even most of the Executive Branch. The arms transfers were so secret that some top Administration officials are still hearing significant details for the first time; Donald Regan learned only last week about an Israeli arms shipment to Iran in November 1985 that the U.S. had condoned. Oklahoma Democrat David Boren, who will take over chairmanship of the Senate Intelligence Committee when the next Congress convenes in January, pledges a "careful and thorough study of the NSC" aimed at returning it to its original role as a body that coordinates advice reaching the President. Some Administration officials think that Reagan...