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Addressing an audience of 300, most of the 10 Democratic candidates for Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill's seat offered standard political fare. A few, however, competed for the audience's attention with eccentric approaches to the debate...
...field recently grew by two, as Mark White, son of former Boston Mayor Kevin H. White, and Christine Sullivan of Belmont announced their candidacies. Sullivan is a former aide to Speaker of the House Thomas P. "Tip" O`Neill...
...America." Such attacks predictably backfired among members of Congress who saw their patriotism impugned. Accusing the Reaganauts of Red baiting, the Democrats used some scare tactics of their own, darkly warning that Nicaragua could become "another Viet Nam." In a passionate speech that climaxed the House debate, Speaker O'Neill revived old nightmares with his declaration, "I see us becoming engaged, step by step, in a military situation that brings our boys directly into the fighting...
...House vote was something of a personal triumph for that old sparring partner of Reagan's, House Speaker Tip O'Neill, who is retiring this year. Just before last week's vote, O'Neill promised that compromise proposals for contra aid would be brought up within a month, a tactic that was designed to win some undecided members into the nay column this go-around...
...Neill said the Democrats maintained a 10 to 15 vote lead and had seen "no erosion" over the past days despite an intensive personal lobbying campaign by Reagan...