Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Democrat John A. Durkin was elected to the United States Senate from New Hampshire yesterday, ending the longest Senate campaign in history...
...right-wing American Independent Party candidate is a good deal higher than expected, New Hampshire is going to elect former Republican Congressman Louis C. Wyman to the Senate tomorrow. Although all polls up until today have shown Wyman and his principal opponent, John A. Durkin, a Democrat who served as state insurance commissioner, in a virtual dead heat, a critical error of strategy by Durkin will probably cost him the election...
...political defeats to his credit, including a 650,000-vote loss to Senator Adlai Stevenson III in 1974, he is now running for Governor against Incumbent Dan Walker and former northern Illinois District Attorney Jim Thompson. "I think I'm almost a shoo-in," asserts Williams, a conservative Democrat whose platform calls for busing teachers instead of pupils and moving the state capital from Springfield to Chicago because "Springfield is a dog place when it comes to restaurants." This week he hopes to get Brother Tennessee's endorsement at a press conference...
...have always styled myself a Democrat, congratulating myself on my lib eral outlook. Lately though, it seems that I agree with President Ford more than I agree with my own Democratic Congress. Gerald Ford seems to be realistic, as his decision to sign the treaty in Helsinki shows. Far from being a betrayal of Eastern Europe, this document is an acknowledgment of Europe as it is today. Our denial of its existence is hardly going to make the Berlin Wall go away...
Children confined to mental institutions or reformatories are often sadly neglected by overworked staffs. But far worse, charges Indiana Democrat Birch Bayh, they are being "mentally handcuffed and made vegetables" by widespread overdosing with Thorazine and other potent tranquilizers. This week Bayh's Senate subcommittee on juvenile delinquency is holding hearings on allegations of drug misuse in both private and public institutions for children...