Word: democratics
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Among the 4,987 kinds of forms used by the Federal Government is one that is supposed to be sent to city officials after a nuclear attack. It asks how many of their citizens have survived the disaster. Scoffs Florida Democrat Lawton Chiles, chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Federal Spending Practices and Open Government: "The implication is that even if nothing else survives a nuclear blast, the bureaucracy will rise from the ashes...
...until last week did he fight back. At his press conference, he snapped, "I will not tolerate a plan that provides huge windfalls for millionaires and two bits for the average American." Nor, he said, would he accept a watered-down version of the amendment sponsored by Oklahoma Democrat James Jones...
Byrd knew he had 58 votes. He hoped that he could persuade Alabama Democrat John Sparkman to cast the 60th vote if the 59th could be secured. Byrd had acquired a pledge of that vote from Louisiana Democrat Russell Long, who would switch from his pro-filibuster stand if, among other things, the bill were amended to outlaw labor's use of "stranger" pickets, workers from one plant who join picket lines at another. Byrd planned to send the bill back to the Human Resources Committee to add the Long provision...
Working closely with Democratic National Chairman John C. White, Kraft also plays the quiet troubleshooter in a variety of delicate situations. For instance, in Puerto Rico, rival factions for two years have been contending for control of the party apparatus. One of the issues is whether the island will have a presidential primary in 1980 or continue to select convention delegates by caucus. Kraft, who speaks Spanish well and has built a strong bond with the group backing primaries, helped to coax a "compromise" through the Democratic National Committee that favors the pro-Carter faction and im proves the prospects...
DIED. Jens Otto Krag, 63, twice Prime Minister of Denmark, whose personal crusade for European unity culminated in his country's vote to join the European Community in 1972; of a heart attack; in Jutland, Denmark. An economist and a Social Democrat, Krag became a Cabinet minister at 33, Prime Minister at 47. After Danes voted to join the Common Market, he shocked them by abruptly resigning. Said he: "The time I have used talking to newsmen I will now use for reading...