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For President-elect Ronald Reagan, one of the not-so-incidental pleasures of his visit to Washington last week was the chance to applaud a legislative harbinger of his upcoming Administration. While Reagan was in town, the Senate passed a measure that would prohibit the Justice Department from seeking court...
North Carolina's Jesse Helms, who are determined to push their long-thwarted wishes even if the Democratic majority in the House will block their bills; some ten moderates and liberals, whose profiles will probably remain low.
As a portent of battles to be fought in the coming years, the Senate voted 42 to 38 to add an antibusing measure to a $9.8 billion appropriation bill for the Justice Department and other agencies. Already passed by the House, the rider would prevent the Justice Department from asking...
Elsewhere, Republicans were carried to victory by the surging Reagan tide: in Pennsylvania, former Philadelphia District Attorney Arlen Specter edged out former Pittsburgh Mayor Peter Flaherty; in North Carolina, John East, a professor of political science at East Carolina State University and protégé of Republican Senator Jesse...
Conservative North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms has labeled White a "leftist" and a "dangerous ideologue," and he succeeded in holding up Senate approv al of White's appointment as ambassador for six weeks. In fact, White is on rec ord as be "It is very important that the armed...