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...growing conviction among members of Congress that the U.S. should be encouraging the Salvadoran government to negotiate with the guerrillas (see story on page 23). As concern about the legitimacy of the voting mounted, the Administration announced the names of eight U.S. citizens, led by Republican Senator Nancy Kassebaum, who will gather in El Salvador to observe the process...
...living increases likely next year, he lost by eight votes. The splintered Democrats could not prevent the Republicans from cutting Medicaid and unemployment compensation and other social programs $200 million more than Reagan had requested, and all but four went along with a move by Kansas Republican Nancy Kassebaum to lessen a cut in the lending authority of the Export-Import Bank, a step that benefits big corporations...
Karen Keesling, a Reagan advisor and legislative aide to Senator Nancy Kassebaum (R-Kan.), defended the sincerity of Reagan's pledge, claiming that the Governor first made the statement in August at the Republican convention in Detroit...
...denied the nomination by party bosses who gave it to Adlai Stevenson instead. Under the new rules drafted after 1968, the results of the primaries became binding on convention delegates. "Direct democracy" had triumphed. The convention, rather than choosing a President, simply celebrated the result. Says Kansas Senator Nancy Kassebaum, whose father Alf Landon was nominated at a "real" convention in 1936: "I miss the rough-and-tumble. This is all a little sanitized...
...Kansas Republican Nancy Kassebaum, daughter of 1936 Presidential Candidate Alf Landon, who reported that her broadcasting properties are worth between $2.1 million and $4.2 million...