Word: democratics
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...procedure suffered an embarrassment in September when Carter announced the nomination of Monroe McKay, 49, a Brigham Young University law professor, for a Utah-allotted vacancy on the Tenth Circuit Court. McKay's brother is Representative Gunn McKay, a Democrat close to House Speaker Tip O'Neill. The nominating panel had McKay on its list, but a poll of the Utah State Bar Commission had ranked Salt Lake City Attorney David Watkiss al the top. Utah's two Republican Senators even congratulated Watkiss. Then Representative McKay approached O'Neill, who approached Carter. This week McKay...
...fate on his turf. But in the Senate, where the rules of procedure do not permit tight organization as in the House, the plan has come completely unstuck. The dismemberment has been greatly aided by an intense lobbying effort by the oil industry, whose powerful friends include Louisiana Democrat Russell Long, chairman of the Finance Committee. Generally, the House voted to retain oil and gas price controls and increase energy taxes-two important aspects of the Carter plan. The Senate yielded instead to arguments by the oil industry that deregulation of prices would give oil and gas producers the incentive...
...Administration is most worried about Senator Scoop Jackson. The Washington Democrat was the bane of Henry Kissinger's existence during earlier SALT debates, and now, in a truly bipartisan spirit, he is marshaling his formidable technical expertise and political power to give Secretary of State Cyrus Vance as much trouble, if not more. As chairman of the Senate's arms-control subcommittee, Jackson has heard testimony on SALT II from a parade of high-level witnesses, and he has not liked what he has heard. In one subcommittee session, Jackson treated Vance in a way that one shaken...
...limits on the cruise missile, which promises to be vital to the U.S. arsenal, without imposing sufficient curbs on a number of threatening Soviet weapons systems, notably the long-range Backfire bomber and the SS-18 rocket, which can carry eight independently targetable warheads. Another Administration nemesis (also a Democrat), former SALT Negotiator Paul Nitze, has declared that by 1985, when SALT II would expire, the U.S.S.R. would be in a position to launch three times as many land-based nuclear warheads as the U.S., and the U.S. Minuteman missile system will be vulnerable to a pre-emptive strike. Says...
...snub from the Kremlin leaders, who decided-after looking at his prepared text-that they could not fit him into the speaking schedule. This only burnished his sought-after image of independence. Said one diplomat in Madrid: "The Russians were booby-trapped. Carrillo came out looking like a stalwart democrat...