Word: favority
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wrong when you say that the Republicans favor less government; the Republicans think it's fine to spend money on B-l bombers, but when it comes to food stamps for poor people you hear a different story...
WELFARE. Both Ford and Carter favor reforming the haphazard, unfair and inefficient welfare system. The President proposes mainly procedural changes to tighten up the rickety structure. Jimmy Carter would revamp the whole system?taking the burden away from the cities (New York City alone last year paid out $700 million) and giving it entirely to the federal and state governments...
Both candidates favor using U.S. pressure on Rhodesia to move toward "majority" (black) rule and on South Africa to abandon apartheid. Both want the U.S. to work with all parties toward an overall settlement in the Middle East?even Kissinger agrees that his old step-by-step technique is outdated?and both risk offending some Jewish voters by accepting the view that Israel should give up substantial territory that it seized from the Arabs during the 1967 war in return for some kind of international guarantee of its safety...
...appearance before Protestant ministers in Houston, Southern Baptist Carter reiterated his familiar position. He believes abortion to be morally wrong and opposes it except in cases where a mother's life is threatened or she is a rape victim. At the same time, he does not favor constitutional amendments that would either ban abortions or give the states the right to decide the matter. Under the scrutiny of the bishops, however, Carter wavered. He agreed with them that the Democratic platform went too far in saying that "it is undesirable to amend the U.S. Constitution to overturn the Supreme...
...fact, there is good reason to believe that many Catholics are relaxed about abortion and unlikely to vote for or against a candidate on that issue. According to the latest Yankelovich, Skelly & White poll, Catholics are fairly evenly divided: 48% oppose a constitutional amendment banning abortion, v. 43% in favor and 9% undecided. Still, it cannot be a comfortable feeling for Candidate Carter to have the nation's Catholic bishops, who nominally represent some 49 million Americans, be publicly critical...