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Mathias was most effective on the Senate Judiciary Committee, where he fought off efforts to tinker with the Constitution through amendments to permit school prayer, outlaw abortion and require a balanced budget. He paid for his positions when Republicans won control of the Senate in 1980: conservatives persuaded Strom Thurmond to pass up the job as chairman of the powerful Armed Services Committee and take over Judiciary in order to block Mathias from the post. That maneuver stung Mathias and contributed to his lonely independence...
...stories produced a new flurry of charges and countercharges over Waldheim's wartime record. In Austria, Christian sought to clarify the Kozara episode, emphasizing that the former United Nations Secretary-General never actually fought the Yugoslav partisans and noting that this was not the first time he had admitted being in the area. He also denied that the Soviets had conspired to recruit Waldheim...
Michael Kennedy, announcing the first precinct results, told a crowd made mostly of volunteers that "we could have all let up after September 16, with good reason," but they fought a hard campaign anyway. He said volunteers had made 40,000 telephone calls, and had used more cars to bring voters to the polls than any other campaign in the state...
ISRAEL has fought six wars since its founding and in only one did it initiate hostilities. But Shipler's chapter on war is mostly a discussion of how Palestinians have gotten a raw deal from the Middle East's wars in general and the Lebanese War in particular. Nothing about how the Six-Day War started, or why the Yom Kippur War was fought...
...Tory Row, the Hooper Lee Nichols House on Brattle St. is said to be home to the ghosts of five Hessian mercenaries who fought in the Revolution. Legend has it they first appeared in 1915, when a library was built on the sight of their graves. They Hessian quintet has been playing cards in the room ever since...