Word: mississippi
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Senate leaders frantically dispatched Air Force jets on Friday to retrieve wandering legislators from campaign and home sites. The Pentagon placed the cost of flying Senators John Tower of Texas, Jeremiah Denton of Alabama and Thad Cochran of Mississippi back to the Capitol from their home states at $4,100. Air Force funds are routinely set aside for such travel in a congressional crisis. By afternoon nine more Senators willing to vote for the debt hike had returned, and the bill passed, 37 to 30. "I thought this day would never come," said Baker after casting the last vote...
...South, two House races have highlighted the deepening rift between newly powerful black voters and the liberal Establishment of the Democratic Par ty. One is a rerun of a 1982 race between incumbent Republican Webb Franklin and Democrat Robert Clark, a State representative seeking to become Mississippi's first black Congressman since 1883. Many blacks complained bitterly two years ago that white Democrats failed to support Clark on racial grounds, and they seriously considered running an independent black in the state's all-white Senate race this year in retaliation. New boundaries have raised the proportion...
...would be within my rights in terminating his employment." As late as 15 to 20 years ago, a few state legislatures enforced laws banning from campuses speakers who pleaded the Fifth Amendment or refused to sign non-Communist affidavits, or threatened to "do violence to the academic atmosphere." Mississippi officials used such a statute in the late 1960's to keep Charles Evers and Aaron Henry, president of the NAACP, from giving speeches at state universities. These examples should remind us that educational institutions can never take free speech for granted and that its enemies come from many different ideologies...
...both sides, especially in the South. In South Carolina, for example, black State Senate Candidate McKinley Washington Jr., a Mondale supporter, has complained that Jackson backers in his district, which is 54% black, threatened to sit out his race, possibly tipping it to his white primary opponent. In Mississippi, a new tier of black party leaders who were active on Jackson's behalf has criticized the former Vice President for continuing to deal only with Mondale supporters. Charged Greenville Attorney Charles Victor McTeer: "Mr. Mondale has been slow to recognize the new black leadership in the South...
That was what the week was like. Above or below all the concrete political speculations and the normal nonsense connected with conventions ran an attitude-not a trickle of an attitude like Dallas' Trinity River, but a Mississippi, a Missouri. The attitude involved money only indirectly. Money seemed but a natural consequence of a way of life that called out, as did Paul Laxalt on Wednesday night, for "growth, growth and more growth." The pessimism of the Democrats, which Vice President Bush decried, that was not for Dallas. Caution, timidity, they were not for Dallas...