Word: democratics
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...National Airport, and so are the embarrassments for Congress. After the committee investigates Georgia Republican Newt Gingrich for a questionable book deal, it must consider Ohio Republican Donald Lukens, convicted in May of having sex with a 16-year-old girl. Then it will weigh the case of Illinois Democrat Gus Savage, accused of fondling an unwilling Peace Corps volunteer during a March trip to Zaire. Last week the committee agreed to investigate Massachusetts Democrat Barney Frank, who has admitted that he had an affair with a male prostitute...
Prodded by rising public anxiety, Congress and federal regulators have vowed to examine the impact of takeovers on aircraft upkeep. Says California Democrat Norman Mineta, a member of the House Aviation Subcommittee: "No one should ever be put in the position of boarding an aircraft and having to worry if the plane is safe...
...Washington politicians have been diligently studying measures to curb airline buyouts. A bipartisan bill drafted by Arizona Republican John McCain and Kentucky Democrat Wendell Ford, who chairs the Senate Aviation Subcommittee, would give the Transportation Department the authority to reject proposed takeovers if they involve too much debt. At the same time, Transportation Secretary Samuel Skinner is devising an Administration policy on how to respond to the takeovers...
...city's Post-Dispatch, founded in 1878 by Joseph Pulitzer and controlled by his descendants, seems entrenched (circ. 378,255). The competing Globe- Democrat, which announced its closing three times in three years, finally folded in 1986. But Ingersoll contends that the P.D. fails to serve the market. "Two-thirds of the households do not read the Post-Dispatch," he claims. "The great challenge is that two-thirds, the unwashed, if you will, who are simply not interested." To reach them, the Sun will be a color- splashed tabloid "for today's video world." Post-Dispatch chairman Joseph Pulitzer...
...criticism comes from both left and right. "To provide leadership, you can't just respond to circumstances, you have to create them," says Senator Alan Cranston, the liberal California Democrat and Foreign Relations Committee veteran. Frank Gaffney, director of the conservative Center for Security Policy, thinks that Baker "believes in success for its own sake and often finds specific goals inconvenient. That's not leadership or vision." Even Shevardnadze took a shot last week, complaining that "the restrained, indecisive position of the American Administration" has led to a "peculiar lull" in arms control...