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...Hill. Speaker of the House Thomas P. O'Neill, halls from Cambridge. Mass It is no accident either that he's a Democrat, because there essentially is no Republican party in the city (of the five state legislative races covering Cambridge last fall, only one was contested by a GOP candidate who got drubbed) And it is no mere whim of fate that he is a successful pol, because the city has a grand tradition of training aspiring officeholders with good old fashioned street corner, rough and tumble politics...
...pursue them Reagan's policy problems have also worsened. His depression-high unemployment and his record budget deficits contributed first to Republican losses in November's election, then to loyalty losses in Congress. The extent to which Reagan's base has eroded was demonstrated late last month, when 21 GOP senators--a coalition which backed the White House's drastic budget measures two springs ago--ignored the threat of a Reagan veto and supported a compromise proposal...
...youngster began tagging along at any GOP functions he could get into. In 1976, he supervised the township youth campaign for a U.S. Congressional candidate. Elliott's man lost but took Bremen by a wider margin than he received in his home township. "The first big break," the senior recalls with mock seriousness...
...Mass. Women's Political Caucus dumped Heckler for a variety of reasons. The proverbial straw, though, was probably Heckler's performance at the 1980 GOP convention. At a news conference in the Capital before the convention, Heckler, a member of the Platform Committee, told reporters that she would back an endorsement of the ERA, and would attempt to bring the issue to the floor if it lost in committee. What exactly happened at the convention is not clear, but it is clear that, for the first time since the 1940s, the GOP 1980 platform did not include an endorsement...
Hatfield understands what most of his GOP colleagues do not: that the Administration is getting a warped view of reality by looking at Guatemala--and for that matter the rest of Latin America--through an East-West prism. Most of Guatemala's problems have nothing to do with the U.S.-Soviet conflict, but are simply the result of decades of social, political and economic inequities. Of course the Soviets and their Cuban allies have taken advantage of the turmoil in Latin America, but only because the U.S. has made it easy for them to do so. By stopping the chaos...