Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been miffed at Ford because the President rarely consulted him. Connally, a Democrat until he switched parties in 1973, recognizes that his chances of becoming President are less than slim, and he speaks enthusiastically about his other activities. He gives speeches around the nation on vital issues. He has a big ranch at Floresville, 180 miles east of Houston, where he raises Santa Gertrudis cattle. As the top man in Houston's largest law firm, he makes international business deals for major U.S. corporations. In Britain last month he met with Cabinet Officers James Callaghan and Anthony Wedgwood Benn...
...Hampshire, where 75% of Democrats who vote in primaries are Catholic, former Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter, a Democratic contender, is peppered with the question time and again. Though he personally opposes abortion, he supports the 1973 Supreme Court decision legalizing it-but some critics claim he had been ambiguous before the Iowa precinct caucuses (see PRESS). On the stump, Indiana's Birch Bayh is plagued by anti-abortion demonstrators who decry his leadership last year in the Senate against a constitutional amendment that would have outlawed most abortions. Sargent Shriver does not favor overturning the Supreme Court decision...
...because of the island's troubles; they are getting considerable noisy support from Cuba and are trying to stir up sympathy in the United Nations. P.I.P. is led by Senator Rubén Berrios, 36, an urbane academic, educated at Yale and Oxford, who calls himself a Social Democrat. While P.I.P. occasionally practices civil disobedience-last year it unsuccessfully tried to organize a tax boycott-the party avoids violence. Berrios wants to create an independent republic and socialize major industry...
Explaining Ford's proposal to a House Social Security subcommittee last week, David Mathews, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, ran into similar flak. Asked Representative Abner Mikva, an Illinois Democrat: "How do you explain to a factory worker that money withheld from his paycheck, over which he has absolutely no control, is not a tax?" Mikva says that the time has finally arrived "to blow the whistle" on the ideas that Social Security is an insurance program and that the payroll tax is somehow different from other taxes...
Kodama has financed adamantly conservative causes and postwar politicians. He is also reputed to have a grip on the yakuza, the Japanese equivalent of the Mafia; politicians have been known to wince at the mention of his name. Idaho Democrat Frank Church, chairman of the Senate subcommittee, charged last week that Kodama is "a prominent leader of the ultra-right-wing militarist political faction in Japan. We have had a foreign policy of the United States Government which has vigorously opposed this political line in Japan and a Lockheed foreign policy which has helped keep it alive...