Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spring of 1977, Ryan, a liberal but maverick Democrat, spoke with a longtime friend, Associated Press Photographer Robert Houston. Houston, who was ill, told Ryan that Houston's son Bob, 33, had been found dead in the San Francisco railroad yards, where he worked, just one day after he had quit the Peoples Temple. Though authorities said his son died as the result of an accidental fall, Houston claimed the cult had long threatened defectors with death...
...Pennsylvania voters elected exactly 101 Republicans and 101 Democrats to their state's 203-seat legislature. And the race for the remaining seat ended in a tie (8,551 votes apiece) between a Democrat and a Republican. Since the legislature could not deal with such matters as choosing a speaker until the tie was broken, it seemed that the two candidates might have to settle their contest by drawing lots. Last week, however, a recount in the deadlocked district showed that Incumbent Kenneth Cole, a Democrat, had actually won by 14 votes. But soon, alas, the legislature was back...
...Democrats Sam Nunn of Georgia, J. Bennett Johnston of Louisiana, Joseph Biden of Delaware, and Republican Pete Domenici of New Mexico were re-elected to the U.S. Senate. They were joined there by Republican William Cohen of Maine and Democrat Bill Bradley of New Jersey...
...elected to the House were Democrats Les Aspin of Wisconsin, Ronald Dellums of California, Elizabeth Holtzman and Charles Rangel of New York and Patricia Schroeder of Colorado, along with Republicans Jack Kemp of New York, Tom Railsback of Illinois and William Steiger of Wisconsin. Minnesota Democrat Martin Sabo was elected to the House...
Only three of TIME'S young leaders ran for office and lost: Democrat Dick Clark, who sought re-election to the Senate from Iowa; Democrat Andrew Miller, in the Senate race in Virginia; and Democrat Yvonne Brathwaite Burke, in the race for California attorney general. The fact that only three were defeated may be a sign that leadership is regaining a stability that has seemed to be missing in the years since Richard Nixon's resignation...