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...still am very disappointed with the use of the term ‘Minuteman’…when referring to the Minuteman Project,” wrote Mark Lamkin, a member of a group of local colonial reenactors, in an e-mail. “Actually I see no relationship between the colonial minuteman and the vigilante minuteman other than the adoption of the name. It definitely is exploitive...
...message and we want to send it." So proclaimed Republican Eugene Lamkin, majority leader of the Indiana house of representatives, last week as his colleagues voted to join the legislatures of 28 other states in calling for a constitutional convention to adopt an amendment requiring a balanced federal budget. With the approval of only five more states, Congress may be forced to convene what would be the first constitutional convention since the Founding Fathers...
...Lamkin's message has clearly been received by Washington. Both Congress and the White House are paying increasing attention to the burgeoning grass-roots feeling that the Government has lost control of federal expenditures and that chronic deficit spending is fueling inflation. But just how well Washington understands the message is another matter...
What High School Senior Randi Lamkin, 17, did on her summer vacation comes down to a single big day. One morning last week, Randi and her friend Carol Jenks were floating off West Yarmouth, Mass., on a rubber raft. Pretty soon a wind came up and the girls went bobbing out to sea. Randi's father David, her brother Chuck and Chuck's friend Stan Sacks went out to rescue them in a motorboat, but the waves were so choppy that the boat was swamped. Then Senator Ted Kennedy's big sailboat hove into view. Said...
...that members must be "ladies in good standing with an evangelical church." Although the Y.W. is no longer significantly Protestant-its membership includes Jews, Catholics and even atheists-its leaders intend to keep the word Christian in the organization's name. The Y.W., says Chicago Assistant Director Lucille Lamkin, is still basically religious, not in any narrow denominational sense but in the spirit of commitment and responsibility. "It is because we are Christian," says she, "that we welcome everybody...