Word: heckler
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Midge Costanza, special assistant to President Carter, quieting a heckler who was disrupting her speech at a Queens, N.Y., Democratic club: "Don't mess with me. I know people in high places. I know...
...himself. There was a lunch in New York with the Empress of Iran where he was somewhat disturbed by a University of Wisconsin school newspaper reporter screaming "Liar!" when the woman spoke, but he was reassured by her screne highness's "sincerity and grace under pressure" as the unfortunate heckler was dragged away by Iranian security guards...
...that way, the Christian Democrats hope to pick up votes from supporters of such smaller parties as the Liberals and Social Democrats, and particularly the despised neoFascists. They received unexpected help in that approach recently when a neo-Fascist politician allegedly shot and killed a 25-year-old Communist heckler at an M.S.I, rally in Sezze. Fanfani blamed the shooting not only on Fascism but on rising Communist influence as well, thereby managing to damn two enemies with one tirade...
...Minneapolis the next day, Kissinger gave a foreign policy briefing to local notables, met the press and made a speech that was interrupted four times by a heckler. The Secretary paused and commented patiently, "I think I have some of my Harvard students here," and from then on owned the appreciative audience. His charm worked equally well on six-year-old Beth Wilder. When she held up her autograph book to him, Kissinger, spoofing his own legendary ego, asked hopefully, "Am I the first?"-and effectively mimed disappointment when she said...
...district, Edward P. Boland (D.) in the 2nd, Robert F. Drinan (D.) in the 4th, Michael J. Harrington '58 (D.) in the 6th, Torbert H. MacDonald '40 in the 7th, Thomas P. O'Neill Jr. (D.) in the 8th, John J. Moakley (D.) in the 9th, Margaret M. Heckler (R.) in the 10th, James A. Burke (D.) in the 11th and Gerry E. Studds (D.) in the 12th district all won re-election