Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...argued for months that his own people in the Justice Department could objectively investigate the loans, upwards of $4.6 million, made by Bert Lance's Atlanta bank to the Carter peanut warehouse in Plains, Ga. It was a hard argument to sustain. Not only was Bell a Democrat, of course, but he was an old friend of the Carters' and of Lance. Faced with increasing criticism, Bell last week finally decided to put the probe into other hands. His choice was highly qualified: Paul Jerome Curran, 45, who not only is a Republican but had been...
...fascinating point about the New Hampshire primary soon became evident: if a Republican was elected President ten months later, he turned out to be the fellow who had won the New Hampshire primary; if a Democrat won, he likewise happened to have finished first in New Hampshire. And then there were those New Hampshire debacles that, given a little hindsight and a lot of state pride, seemed significant: Harry Truman in 1952, George Romney in 1968 and Ed Muskie in 1972. Ergo. New Hampshire obviously was a prize worth trudging through the snow for. In 1975, a regional politican named...
...Washington had any quick-fix cures to offer, they were not apparent. In the Senate, a group of Administration critics led by Ohio Democrat Howard Metzenbaum seemed content simply to badger and goad Energy Secretary James Schlesinger, variously recommending that he either quit or be fired as ineffectual. One of Schlesinger's biggest embarrassments: DOE'S strategic petroleum reserve, which is supposed to be available in times of severe shortage but is years behind schedule and contains less than a week's worth of oil. Pumps to get the crude back out of the huge underground Louisiana...
...Department made a long delayed move to collect some back dumping tariffs. It ordered 38 importers to pay more than $40 million in duties on color TV sets that were brought in to the country between six and eight years ago. The department was clearly acting under pressure. Ohio Democrat Charles Vanik, who heads a House subcommittee on trade, has called for hearings on the dumping issue. At the same time, federal grand juries in New York City, Norfolk, Va., and Los Angeles, as well as a Justice Department task force in Chicago, are hearing federal allegations that several large...
Senator James Sasser, a Tennessee Democrat and chairman of the Subcommittee on Intergovernmental Relations, which is looking into the economics of the gas industry, thinks that gas inflation will get even worse. He figures that relaxing the ceiling on gas prices may cost Americans as much as $5 billion. Says Sasser: "The ceiling prices are becoming floor prices...