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Bullitt began smoking in 1935. That is about 10 years before medical studies began showing a link between cigarette smoking and cancer, according to Dwight E. Harkin, an emeritus professor at the Harvard Medical School who helped pioneer research in the field...
That works in both political directions. Neil Young stumped heavily at the concert for the controversial Harkin bill, which is also known as the "Farm Policy Reform Act of 1985," while the Charlie Daniels Band held down the conservative wing with banner-waving ditties like In America, which offered the observation that Lady Liberty "may have stumbled, but she ain't never fell." Lou Reed pointed up the irony of rock, freshly politicized, being attacked for excessive raunch, by recalling "those people who are trying to censor records" before launching in- to his classic Walk on the Wild Side. Live...
Iowa's new Democratic Senator Tom Harkin, barely introduced to the rituals of the cloakroom, was bumping along the back roads of Nicaragua a fortnight ago accusing President Reagan of "deception, distortion and duplicity." Former Secretary of State Dean Rusk may have had a point when he said, "Give a member of Congress a junket and a mimeograph machine, and he thinks he is Secretary of State." When Harkin and his fellow freshman Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts got home brandishing a cease-fire proposal from Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega Saavedra, the venerable Republican Barry Goldwater said they both...
...lobbying. In Ames, Iowa, 15,000 people, many wearing bright green FARM CRISIS ribbons, jammed a midweek protest rally at Iowa State University's Hilton Coliseum carrying signs reading FARMS, NOT ARMS and NO BILL, NO TILL. Back East, eight farm-state Senators led by Iowa Democrat Tom Harkin echoed their constituents with a demonstration of their own in Lafayette Park, across from the White House. Harkin had 250 white crosses planted to represent the approximate number of farms going out of business each day. "If this President thinks he can preside over the death of the family farm...
...Attorney General, which has already been on hold for a year. Robert Dole, the new Majority Leader, called the maneuver "blackmail" and testily declared, "If we start playing political games rather than responding to the real concerns of these issues, then we are finished." Shot back Democrat Tom Harkin of Iowa: "Those of us who are seeing thousands of our farmers go under . . . are not here to play political games...