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...wanted Congress to "lie down submissively" and let it "dictate every last scintilla" of the 1982 budget. Republican Leader Robert Michel blasted back that the only amendments the majority Democrats wanted to let his party offer to the budget bill were "bastards of the worst order for which we disown any parental responsibility." The vote, on a key procedural test, was suspensefully close: 217 to 210, with 29 Democrats breaking party ranks to give Ronald Reagan a narrow victory...
...sniping from the right generated by NCPAC. Confident that the Republican party will be forced to renounce Terry Dolan, Weicker says he is "proud to be a number one on that guy's hit list--wouldn't have it any other way." He predicts that even conservative candidates will disown Dolan--as several did in 1980--in an effort to maintain GOP unity. Raising his voice with characteristic emotion, Weicker has his own view of who will be the hunted in 1982: "It looks to me like Terry Dolan is the target, not moderate Republicans...
...sounds ridiculous. The scene, like many, is ridiculous. Every Man is a lot to swallow. But how much should we disown from our experience? Can we dismiss it as a possibility? Most of us will...
...anxious for an end to the long and costly war and have not been shy about arm twisting. Warned Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere in London's New Statesman: "If any wing of the Patriotic Front should develop doubts or hesitations about fighting such an open election, [I would] disown them and expect the rest of Africa to do the same." In much the same way, the Salisbury delegation has been under pressure from Salisbury's own patrons in South Africa, who have been actively pushing them toward compromise...
...waltz, Miss Lavore had been known to say, is not as easy as it looks. There are other women--Josette, a fading Boston Brahmin, or Juanita, the daughter of a Lexington trainman and his hardworking wife, who for no apparent reason became a prostitute. Her family does not disown her, turn her out, but continued to love her--what else? --and as venereal disease began to waste her, answered for her. "Juanita is not feeling well today," her mother would say. There are some lots that must be escaped, even if it means turning into a pillar of salt. "Gentlemen...