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...margin, the Senate rejected Sen. Jake Garn's (R-Utah) proposal to couple an additional 39-month ratification period with an opportunity for ratifying states to cancel their vote...
...vote yesterday was a major setback for those fighting addition of the ERA to the U.S. Constitution, Garn said...
...approved repeal of a grandfather clause, which could also cost Ritter his power to assign cases. (Congress exempted 32 sitting chiefs of two-judge districts when it mandated an age 70 retirement policy in 1958; now Ritter is the sole survivor.) Either step would please Utah Senator Jake Garn, who brands Ritter "a disgrace to the federal judiciary...
Engaged. E.J. ("Jake") Garn, 44, Republican Senator from Utah; and Kathleen Brewerton Bingham, 27, former wife of the Senator's administrative assistant. Garn's first wife Hazel died in an automobile accident in August; he and Bingham will wed on April 8 at the Mormon Temple in Salt Lake City...
Surprised Senators tried clumsily to soften the blow. Utah Republican Jake Garn assured Sorensen that his integrity had not been in question. Said the Senator: "I thought you were the wrong man for the wrong position." Indiana Democrat Birch Bayh told Sorensen that some people were out to get him "because they don't want a clean broom at the CIA." Senator George McGovern emerged from the audience to remark that the episode showed that the "ghost of Joe McCarthy still stalks the land." Committee Chairman Dan Inouye, who opposed the nomination, said that he hoped Sorensen would leave...