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These reassurances won Teng high marks from all but the most diehard supporters of Taiwan. Chief among them is Senator Barry Goldwater, who ducked Teng's visit by going home to Arizona for the week. But another conservative leader. Republican Senator Paul Laxalt of Nevada, called Teng's...
Like Buckley's rag, er, magazine. Come to think of it, Buckley's for legalizing grass, usually under the euphemism, de-criminalization. This came after he tried a couple of joints in his boat outside the six-mile U.S. territorial waters limit a few years ago. (I wonder what a...
In the U.S., Taiwan's longtime friends in the Senate were furious over the rapprochement with Peking. Utah Republican Orrin Hatch contemptuously called Carter's foreign affairs advisers "loose-jointed and weak-kneed diplomats" and declared that the President should have held out for a better deal on Taiwan. Said...
Members had to vote on legislation touching on an enormous variety of subjects, from Nobel prizewinners to evidence in rape cases, from drug addicts to Girl Scouts. Often, perplexed Senators and Representatives hardly knew what they were voting on. Said New York Republican Senator Jacob Javits: "I don't...
Accenting his remarks with quips, Kissinger spoke on the need for a strong defense and continued Middle East negotiations. Kissinger has been rumored to be considering running for Sen. Jacob K. Javits' (R-N.Y.) seat in 1980.