Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Should resistance in the diehard districts take the form of defiance rather than defection, Attorney General Mitchell indicated last week that the Federal Government is ready to deal with it. Appearing before the Senate Select Committee on Equal Educational Opportunity, headed by Minnesota Democrat Walter Mondale, Mitchell said that he had more than 300 Justice lawyers, as well as FBI agents and U.S. marshals, ready to take legal action against defiant school officials...
...Hampshire Democrat Thomas J. McIntyre reported a telephone con- versation with a "highly placed source in Vienna [who] made it very clear to me that the success of the SALT negotiations rests almost exclusively on our not remaining static in our ABM pos ture." Just before the vote, Republican Whip Robert Griffin bore down hard er on the issue: "If this amendment should carry and if the SALT talks should thereafter collapse, I would not want to be in the position of those who will vote today against the President...
Since the end of the Fascist era 27 years ago, the Italians have had a new government on the average of every 9.8 months. But now the pace is quickening. Government No. 32, which was headed by Christian Democrat Mariano Rumor, lasted a mere 100 days. Last week former Treasury Minister Emilio Colombo, another Christian Democrat, had barely formed Government No. 33 before many Italian politicians were predicting that it would fall almost as fast...
...East Los Angeles, served as a Marine intelligence officer in World War II, later worked his way through college and eventually became a millionaire developer of shopping centers. A few years ago, he says, "I was a tennis player, a moneymaker and a knee-jerk Democrat." His life centered on Palm Springs weekends and boosting his fortune to $10 million. Then something happened: his two youngest children (a third is 30 and less influential) "transformed me from a clod into a citizen...
...best-known law professors these days seem to be activist and liberal, urging sweeping social and political reforms. At Yale, Alexander M. Bickel, Chancellor Kent Professor of Law and Legal History, is as much an activist as any of his colleagues. He considers himself a liberal Democrat, campaigned for Robert Kennedy and serves as a contributing editor of the New Republic. Yet Bickel is a notable exception to the liberal stereotype: he is most noted for his judicial conservatism...