Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...candidates and Presidents do it? "Most of it is done to accommodate the photographers," Democrat Hubert Humphrey frankly told the committee. "We want the pictures showing all those hands reaching out." But, he said, "it is not necessary." Democratic Senator George McGovern saw three reasons why such touring is so popular...
...wing groups, a much broader spectrum was represented by the astonishing number of political leaders who damned the Spanish regime with rhetoric usually reserved for wartime enemies. Britain's Foreign Secretary, James Callaghan, almost joyfully asserted that the Franco government was in its death throes, and Italian Christian Democrat Paolo Cabras branded the regime "a continuing curse against all free men." Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme described the Madrid government as so many "satanic murderers"; Reiulf Steen, chairman of Norway's ruling Labor Party, defined the Franco regime as "a black barbarity." Steen implored his countrymen to forgo...
...into pipelines to consuming states. At stake were billions of dollars that gas producers and pipeline operators might reap in higher prices, the jobs of workers in industries dependent upon gas, and the comfort of millions of home dwellers. Oklahoma Republican Dewey F. Bartlett warned that if the Democrats succeeded in keeping prices under tight control, gas producers would sue "to seek redress of grievances for confiscation of private property." Ohio Democrat John Glenn retorted for the pro-control side...
...DRAMA was played out in the credentials committee meetings during convention week. Each state was entitled to 10 delegates per 1000 Young Democrats and anyone who was an under-35 registered Democrat and had filled out and signed an address sheet affirming, "I am a Young Democrat," qualified as a Young Democrat. Kentucky traipsed in with over 10,000 address sheets and claimed the maximum of 110 delegates. Every time the committee attempted to invalidate addresses like "John Smith, Boone Country," the Kentucky state Y.D. chairman paced the room in his cowboy boots and hat and three piece white suit...
Some members of Congress were stirred to action. Representative John Murphy, a New York Democrat who authored the ineffective 1968 gun-control law banning some imports, introduced a new bill to require registration of all guns and owners; anyone buying a gun would have to get a certificate of eligibility. Democratic Congressman John Conyers from Detroit proposed confiscating almost every handgun except those used by the police and armed services...