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...from Virginia, to use his pull to help the young man avoid combat duty in Korea? After fielding reporters' questions about the allegation, Robertson last week launched a counterattack. He filed two libel suits for $35 million each in Washington federal court against his accusers, former Republican Congressman Paul McCloskey Jr. and Democratic Congressman Andrew Jacobs Jr. of Indiana. "I may become a candidate for President of the United States," said Robertson, who last month announced a campaign to obtain 3 million signatures and financial support for a possible race. "It is important that I demonstrate the falsehood of these...
...controversy began last summer, when Jacobs heard Robertson make a speech supporting military action by U.S.-backed rebels in Nicaragua. Jacobs thought McCloskey, a Korean War veteran who had been assigned to the same unit as Robertson, had once singled out the evangelist as a hawkish conservative who had avoided combat service. Jacobs, who served as a combat infantryman with the Marines in Korea, asked McCloskey to provide greater detail...
Coleman was politically active at Harvard, serving as a member of the Youth Caucus, a bipartisan organization that mobilized opposition to the Vietnam war. She was also a campaign volunteer for Paul N. McCloskey, a California Republican congressman who ran against Richard M. Nixon on an anti-war platform...
Many involved hoped the dramatic walkout signaled the end of the bitter battle over "the bloody Eighth," the Indiana district whose tempestuously disputed seat was finally awarded to Democrat Frank McCloskey by the House last week. After a careful recount monitored by two Democrats and one Republican, McCloskey finished in front by four votes out of 234,055 counted. The House then quashed a Republican move for a new election. While the absent Republicans held a news conference on the steps of the Capitol, Democrats remained behind to give McCloskey a standing ovation and witness his swearing...
...ratio of Democrats to Republicans. This has rankled the G.O.P., which argues that a ratio of 3 to 2 would be more in line with overall party representation in the chamber. Last week that resentment flared over the contested Indiana seat that committee Democrats declared belonged to Frank McCloskey, one of their own. Even usually calm and gentle souls like Wyoming's Dick Cheney declared war and kept the House sleepless and fuming through Monday night and in parliamentary uproar all week long...