Word: galvin
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...Neil left the crowded field of candidates for the Eighth Congressional seat with a smile on his face, in marked contrast to State Representatives William F. Galvin (D-Allston) and Thomas J. Vallely (D-Back Bay), both of whom were visibly upset when they withdrew from the race last month...
...Galvin, who withdrew from the Eighth Congressional contest to seek re-election, lashed out bitterly at O'Neil in his departing announcement, calling him "a disgrace to the race," whose flamboyant presence hampered the serious discussion of issues...
State Rep. Thomas M. Gallagher (D-Brighton) has agreed with Galvin, saying recently that O'Neil's absence would permit the public to concentrate on more liberal and popular candidates...
...remain in Nicaragua; the rest have been forced by a vigorous Sandinista counteroffensive to retreat across the border. Nicaraguan Defense Minister Humberto Ortega Saavedra has said that the contras have "totally lost the initiative." For once, the American military seems to agree with the Sandinistas. Admits General John Galvin, commander of the U.S. Southern Command: "They need training, they need advice in terms of strategy, tactics and senior leadership. Their basic military techniques are rather poor." Even a specially commissioned Administration report concludes that the contras are so weak and divided, so poorly trained and led, that money alone...
Roosevelt, Gallagher, and Bachrach have allsaid they would be willing to cap personalcampaign spending and would abide by a mutualdecision to cap campaign spending at $500,000, asproposed by State Rep. William F. Galvin(D-Allston), also a candidate...