Word: democratics
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...attack. The 'Libertad' bill permits Americans to sue foreign companies that invest in Cuban property that has been confiscated from its owners and shuts down U.S. aid. The measure's Republican sponsors say the bill will strangle Castro's regime, cutting off foreign capital. Senator Claiborne Pell, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee disagrees, saying it could "alienate our allies" as well as causing a logjam in the courts. The Administration's sudden shift reveals an eye on the upcoming elections as well as sensitivity to Republican calls for sweeping measures and accusations that Clinton is "soft...
...metamorphosing in the politically nurturing setting of the White House into a right-wing, conservative speech writer under Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan. The American media was a second protective womb for the developing organism on CNN's "Crossfire" and in such conservative papers as the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, which voiced expressions of support for Barry Goldwater and Senator Joseph McCarthy. Finally, one week ago, the moment of emergence arrived, and out came Patrick J. Buchanan as New Hampshire's victorious Republican candidate...
When he traveled on Wednesday through a blizzard to the North Country hamlet of Littleton, the part of the state that gave him his margin last time, he met his disciples. Lillian Giberson, 84, spent most of her working life working for a Democrat in the Maine legislature. She hobbled across the street in the falling snow to hear Buchanan speak at the Caledonia Opera House. In the pocket of her old blue snow jacket she carried an envelope containing $100. She said she'd been paid $50 by the Alexander campaign to post his sign in her front yard...
...found that journalism suited him--he could pick fights in print and not with his fists. He became an editorial writer on the Midwest's most conservative paper, the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, writing blood-and-guts editorials in favor of Barry Goldwater and against the Great Society, decrying communism and the Red Menace. He pictured himself as a young version of the right-wing columnist Westbrook Pegler--"standing flat on his feet, swinging for the belly," as he wrote home at the time...
DIED. EDMUND G. ("PAT") BROWN SR., 90, Governor of California from 1959-67; in Beverly Hills. As Governor, Brown expanded California's university system and established the state's first commission to ensure equal-employment opportunities. He was only the second Democrat to be elected to the post this century; his son Edmund ("Jerry") Brown Jr. was the third...