Word: democratics
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After only three years in Congress, Barbara Jordan, 39, the sternly eloquent Democrat from Texas, already commands more respect and power than many Representatives can look forward to in a lifetime. She serves on the House Judiciary Committee, where she voiced one of the most cogent and impassioned defenses of constitutional principles that emerged from the Nixon impeachment hearings; she is also on the Government Operations Committee, as well as the Democratic Steering Committee and the task force that drafted a Democratic plan to revive the economy last year. And she was the forceful co-chairman at the recent Democratic...
...during 20 years in New York City and nearby Suffolk County before then-Governor Nelson Rockefeller named him special prosecutor in 1972. The post was created in the malodorous wake of the Knapp Commission hearings on official corruption in the Big Apple, and Nadjari was given extraordinary powers. A Democrat-turned-Republican, Superprosecutor Nadjari went on to indict 296 persons on various charges of corruption. He won guilty verdicts against one district attorney (later reversed) and a number of lesser government officials. No fewer than 500 other investigations were under...
...growing number of Congressmen fear that U.S. involvement in Angola may be the first step toward another Viet Nam-style quagmire. Declared California Democrat John Tunney, leader of the Senate's fight to halt the aid though not noted for his expertise in foreign affairs: "For the past 30 years, we have given the military adventurists what they wanted and they have gone everywhere and done everything, getting us involved in everybody else's business from Asia to Latin America and now, so it seems, Africa." Republican Senator Charles Percy of Illinois complained that the U.S. was "getting...
Still a third interpretation comes from Iowa Democrat Richard Clark, head of the African subcommittee of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Clark, who has talked with the leaders of a11 three Angolan factions, believes that they all have much the same goals and that the Russians may just be wasting their money in backing the M.P.L.A. "The history of Soviet intervention in Africa," says Clark, "is one of almost total failure. If the M.P.L.A. wins, the Soviets will be lucky if they can hang on for a year...
Garrity is a New Deal Democrat and has been closely associated with the Kennedy family. He worked in the Milwaukee headquarters of John F. Kennedy in the 1960 Wisconsin primary; a year later Kennedy appointed him U.S. Attorney. One of his assistants in that post was Kennedy's cousin, Joseph F. Gargan. In 1966, Ted Kennedy sponsored Garrity's nomination for the federal bench...