Word: lamkin
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...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...