Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Seamy Things." While Watergate cases were being played out in the courts, the impeachment of the President was proceeding in the House of Representatives with growing partisan bitterness. Two weeks ago, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, New Jersey Democrat Peter Rodino, announced that the committee would attempt to speed its impeachment hearings by calling only two of the six witnesses requested by the President's defense lawyer, James St. Clair. Last week Rodino reversed himself and said that all six would be called. He made this conciliatory gesture in return for a concession from House Republicans: their...
Impeachment Vote. The impeachment question may preoccupy the House for most of the summer, but the Democratic leadership believes that, barring some dramatic turn in favor of the President, the outcome is virtually decided. After an informal member-by-member analysis, the Democrats concluded that the House is now disposed to vote for impeachment by a margin of at least 55 votes. The lineup, according to the Democratic count: 245 (including 210 Democrats and 35 Republicans) for impeachment; 190 (38 Democrats and 152 Republicans) against. "That's our minimum figure," declares a ranking Democrat, insisting that the leaders counted...
...Good Friends." That prompted Tory supporters in Guelph, Ont., to break out a banner proclaiming STANFIELD is A LOVER TOO. Even New Democrat Leader David Lewis, 65, was forced to admit to a persistent questioner at a campaign rally that he and Sophie, his wife of 39 years, were "very good friends, let me tell you." The latest Gallup poll gives Trudeau the edge in the election. But the figures-Liberals 42%, Tories 34%, N.D.P. 18%-so closely approximate those of the 1972 election that another minority-government era for Canada seems likely...
...party now represents 27% of the national electorate but has never been a member of any coalition. "The Socialists want their wife in the government and their little girl friend in the opposition," sniffed Social Democrat Leader Flavio Orlandi. "If they insist on our blessing, we're not going to give it." The Socialists finally relented on that demand, and Premier Rumor ultimately obtained agreement on a vague statement promising increased unofficial consultation with the Communists...
...leading nutritionists and other experts to study thoroughly domestic and global food problems. Mayer's group of roughly 100 reported last week at unusual hearings split into two panels: one group of Senators, headed by Committee Chairman George McGovern, heard the international report; another group, led by Democrat Walter Mondale of Minnesota, listened to the domestic report...