Word: democratically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Alabama, the chaotic three-way race for governor calmed a bit with Attorney General Charlie Graddick's decision to give up his faltering write-in campaign, leaving the field to fellow Democrat Bill Baxley and Republican Guy Hunt...
...aliens this year, 500,000 more than in 1985. By some estimates, for every person caught, another will get through. Meanwhile, public outcries against terrorism and drug traffic translated into a fear of open borders to the south. "It was a combination of things," said Representative Leon Panetta, a Democrat from California who helped craft the final compromise. "There was clearly a backlash throughout the country on the whole immigration issue." Attempts at compromise bogged down over provisions to benefit fruit and vegetable growers, who largely rely on illegal aliens for their work forces. Conservatives also balked at the amnesty...
Thanks to several hours of deft negotiations last week, Democrats and Republicans had it both ways. After two months of wrangling over the $1.7 billion antidrug measure, leaders utilized a little-known procedure that allowed the House to approve the bill with the death penalty intact and then send it back to the Senate, where members stripped the provision from the bill. "I don't think anyone's really proud of it," said Representative Patricia Schroeder, a Colorado Democrat. "But I don't think they could think of another way to get it out of here...
Dollars, not delegates, are what draw candidates to this band of 40 veteran fund raisers, who have the ability to raise several million dollars by mid-1987. Some of Impac's members want to unite behind one Democrat by next spring. Even if only, say, half of the group were to stay together, Impac's endorsement would give an early edge -- financial and psychological -- to the candidate of its choice. In the large field now forming, only one prospect, New York Governor Mario Cuomo, starts 1987 with a respectable treasury. "We would love to have their backing," says a strategist...
...Assistant Secretary of State Eliott Abrams, a chief spokesman for the Reagan Administration's Central American policies. Testifying on Capitol Hill, Abrams had just flatly denied any U.S. government ties to an American cargo plane that Sandinista troops had shot down in Nicaragua on Oct. 5. Unconvinced, the Massachusetts Democrat snapped, "If the U.S. government is not paying for this, who is, the A-Team?" Equally frustrated, Democrat Peter Kostmayer of Pennsylvania charged that a "great deal of information is being held back...