Word: democrats
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Apparently Agnew learned nothing from the summer tax fight. Last week, when Maine Democrat Edmund Muskie proposed that the U.S. unilaterally halt testing MIRV nuclear warheads for six months, the Vice President issued the admonition that "no responsible person would propose that the President play Russian roulette with U.S. security.' Agnew seemed to have overlooked the fact that Massachusetts Republican Edward Brooke and 42 other Senators were already promoting a resolution in favor of a bilateral recess in MIRV testing pending the start of Soviet-American arms control talks. The measure had seemed to be stuck until Agnew spoke...
...Democrat of center-stripe conviction, a Roman Catholic, a young (31) suburban (Evanston, Ill.) mother of two and wife of a vice president at the First National Bank of Chicago. Her joiner's urge has been satisfied by participation in the 4-H Club. When she told her husband Bernard that she planned to attend a Moratorium observance at Mundelein College, he had a surprise for her too: he had decided to take part in a businessmen's discussion of the war at his downtown bank...
BUFFALO PATRIOTS The clearest case of a city divided over issues of crime and race may be Buffalo. There, liberal Democrat Frank A. Sedita, 62, a career politician who has served two terms as mayor, is in danger of being unseated by Mrs. Alfreda Slominski, 40, a conservative Republican. It is something of a grudge match...
...McChesney Martin, 62, who has become almost as much a fixture in the capital as the Washington Monument. But his term in the $42,500-a-year job ends on Jan. 31, and by law he cannot be reappointed. Last week President Nixon announced his choice as successor to Democrat Martin. The new economic maestro is Arthur Frank Burns, 65, a self-described "moderate Republican," a longtime close aide of Nixon, and a stubborn anti-inflationist. For at least the next four years, the nation's money and credit policies will bear his stamp...
...BONN, West Germany-After twenty years of Christian Democrat rule, West Germany elected its first Socialist chancellor yesterday...