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...officials were also miffed that Raisa chose to set up a colloquy with prominent women at the home of Democratic Fund Raiser Pamela Harriman. Among the guests: Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, University of Chicago President Hanna Gray, Publisher Katharine Graham and Senators Barbara Mikulski and Nancy Kassebaum. Nonetheless, by the end of the summit, official patch-up stories were issuing from the White House. Raisa, it was said, had asked Nancy at the Soviets' Thursday dinner, "What is this about our not liking each other?" The First Lady described her Soviet counterpart as puzzled. "Such stories...
...party's leader becomes Prime Minister and thus almost always commands a majority in Parliament to support his programs. Recently a five-year-old citizens' group called the Committee on the Constitutional System, headed by Washington Lawyer Lloyd Cutler, former Treasury Secretary C. Douglas Dillon and Republican Senator Nancy Kassebaum of Kansas, has been pressing for revisions in that spirit. "In the parliamentary systems of Western Europe and Japan . . . the Prime Minister's success rate is very close to 100%," says Cutler, former counsel to President Carter. "The American system today is only four-fifths as efficient when we achieve...
...Senate Foreign Relations Committee, had urged Reagan to propose a new tack. He was clearly discouraged by the result. "I think the President needs to do more," he said afterward. "I had hoped the President would take this occasion for an extraordinary message to the world." Republican Senator Nancy Kassebaum of Kansas, a respected voice on African policy, seemed to speak for many fellow Republicans. "I was deeply disappointed with the President's speech," she said. "It gave no new direction." The day after the speech, in what could be described as a ritual sacrifice, Shultz testified for four hours...
...voted to clamp a comprehensive trade embargo on South African products and force all U.S. companies to withdraw from the embattled country within six months. Last week the Senate delivered its strongest gesture of impatience yet. Only hours before the body recessed for the holiday weekend, Republican Senator Nancy Kassebaum introduced a bill that would ban all new U.S. loans and investments in South Africa. Said she: "The government of South Africa has become so intransigent that our policies appear to be entirely irrelevant...
Even in the Republican-controlled Senate, the Administration's tone antagonized legislators. Deploring the White House's depiction of the contra aid debate as a "disagreement between Republicans in white hats and Democrats wrapped in red banners," Republican Senator Nancy Landon Kassebaum of Kansas declared, "I find this simplistic reasoning to be highly offensive." When it seemed on the verge of sabotaging its own crusade, the Administration shifted tactics slightly late in the week. Said one U.S. official: "Congressmen don't like to be threatened; they like to be cajoled...