Word: democratics
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...Midwest, traditional stronghold of the G.O.P., the Republicans could lose up to 22 of their 69 congressional seats-as many as six in the bastions of Nebraska and Iowa. In the 13 Western states, the Democrats should pick up at least five and perhaps as many as eleven congressional seats. The most interesting Senate fight is in Colorado, where Democrat Gary Hart, 36, George McGovern's presidential campaign manager in 1972, is trying to link conservative G.O.P. Senator Peter Dominick, 59, to some of the tainted milk money collected for President Nixon's reelection...
...paid relatively less attention to his Council on Wage and Price Stability, which will monitor increases in those crucial areas. The council has no enforcement powers, but Ford did appoint as executive director a strong advocate of Washington jawboning. He is Albert E. Rees, a Princeton economist and a Democrat. Rees shares Ford's adamant stand against imposing mandatory wage and price controls...
...case, there is some reasons for optimism. Last week, two senior members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, New York Republican Jacob K. Javits, and Rhode Island Democrat Clairborne Pell, flew to Cuba, ostensibly against the wishes of the State Department. The two Senators had originally informed the State Department--which continues to implement the U.S. policy of non-recognition of Fidel Castro's government--of their desire to make the trip in April. Their request for clearance was rejected in August, according to a Javits aide. Only last month did the Department, though continuing to maintain that...
Congress's supervision of the CIA is inadequate; in some respects, it is a myth. A Senate subcommittee headed by conservative Democrat John Stennis of Mississippi meets irregularly and has almost no staff. Member Symington complains that, from the U-2 incident to the Chile affair, the subcommittee has known less about CIA activities than the press. A House subcommittee chaired by liberal Democrat Nedzi meets more often, but he looks on his responsibility "as making a determination as to whether or not the CIA has acted legally, after or during the fact." Thus no one in Congress knows...
...lower interest rates and more mortgage money. Union leaders called for higher wages and more federal spending to generate jobs. "I've heard a great deal about belt tightening, but the trouble is, everybody wants to tighten someone else's belt," cracks Congressman Thomas S. Foley, a Democrat from Washington State...