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...group of House Democrats led by Aspin, Albert Gore of Tennessee and Norman Dicks of Washington was urging that the U.S. shift away from large, MIRVed missiles and instead deploy mobile ones with single warheads, like the proposed Midgetman. This had been recommended by Reagan's bipartisan panel on nuclear strategy chaired by Lieut. General Brent Scowcroft, which had nevertheless favored emplacing a limited number of MX missiles while the Midgetman was being developed...
Once again, the University Administration has manifested its gross lack of consideration for the needs and problems of the students of Harvard-Radcliffe. The salient issue here is the absence of telephones in Claverly, Gore, Mather, McKinlock, Randolph! Russell and Westmorely Halls...
...always been an unlikely alliance: liberal Democrats joining with the Reagan Administration to save the controversial MX missile. But Congressmen Les Aspin of Wisconsin, Norman Dicks of Washington, and Albert Gore Jr. of Tennessee never promised their support with no strings attached. When the Scowcroft Commission's report on strategic forces came out last April, the three were widely credited with engineering the package's major quid pro quo: congressional support for the MX in exchange for the Administration's good-faith pursuit of a U.S.-Soviet arms-control deal. So far the Congressmen have delivered...
Aspin made clear that his vote and those of other pro-MX Democrats hinge on arms-control progress. Said he: "People aren't about to be snookered." That message is not new. Aspin, Dicks and Gore sounded the same warning in early August at a private White House meeting with National Security Adviser William Clark. But the pressure is being turned up at a time when both the START talks and the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) talks in Geneva are in a deepfreeze...
Critics charge that the result has been nonenforcement of existing laws rather than much needed and lasting reform of the regulatory system. "The Administration has taken the lazy and sloppy way out," contends Democratic Congressman Albert Gore Jr. "They just decided not to enforce the law. This sets up a conflict between those who would obey the law and those who would violate it, and gives the advantage to the violators." Contends Fred Wertheimer, president of Common Cause: "Basically, the Administration is saying, 'Don't worry about the statutes on the books; just go about your business...