Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ROBERT DRINAN, 50, Democrat, Mass., has the good humor to dub himself the "Mad Monk," but is zealously serious about peace and world hunger. Says he: "I can't live at peace with myself knowing that we have 6% of the world's population and consume 60% of the world's resources." He hopes for a seat on the Judiciary Committee to put his experience as a law school dean to good...
JAMES ABOUREZK, 39, Democrat, S.D., the son of a Lebanese pack peddler, was born and raised on the Rosebud Sioux Reservation. A Stevenson-Kennedy liberal who became the first Democrat elected from his district in 37 years, he defeated an opponent who advocated "obliterating Hanoi." A foe of the seniority system, he is aiming for the Interior Committee to work on Indian affairs...
...ASPIN, 32, Democrat, Wis., has already been tagged the resident Whiz Kid. He has degrees from Yale and Oxford and a Ph.D. in economics from M.I.T. He won on a platform of peace, conservation and economic welfare, but probably knows too much to get the seat he wants on the Armed Services Committee: he once served as special assistant to former Defense Secretary McNamara...
BELLA ABZUG, 50, Democrat, N.Y., is a sort of political Thelma Ritter, armed with a floppy hat and a vitriolic tongue, who makes strident music wherever she goes. Too formidable to be discounted as foolish, she won a tough campaign on Manhattan's Lower East Side. She led the opening attack on the seniority system in the 92nd, and can be counted on to push -hard-for women's rights legislation...
ADLAI STEVENSON ill, 40, Democrat, Ill., bears the prestige-and the burden-of a highly revered name. The biggest vote getter in Illinois history, excepting his father's gubernatorial landslide, he was sworn in immediately after the November elections to fill the remaining four years of the late Senator Dirksen's term. He hit the deck running, voting for a job-safety bill dear to Democrats...