Word: nunn
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While stumping in Georgia, Buchanan told one group of small-town supporters in Perry, (Senator Sam Nunn's hometown) that the Voting Acts Right of 1965 was "an act of regional discrimination against the South...
...Though Georgia Senator Sam Nunn, tongue in cheek, introduced Clinton at a meeting two years ago as "the only politician to be a rising star in three decades," he knew pain and adversity in childhood. His father, a heavy- equipment salesman, was killed in a freak road accident three months before Clinton -- originally christened William J. Blythe IV -- was born on Aug. 19, 1946, in the little southwestern Arkansas town of Hope. Five months later, his mother Virginia returned to nursing school in Shreveport, La., to get a degree in anesthesiology, leaving Bill with grandparents who ran a small grocery...
Says Georgia Democrat Sam Nunn, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee: "We are on the verge of either having the greatest destruction of nuclear weapons in the history of the world or the greatest proliferation of nuclear weapons, nuclear materials and the scientific know-how to make these weapons." What most concerns many experts in Washington is that President Bush has dallied inexcusably in developing any strategy to use the potentially critical influence of the U.S. to push the republics in the right direction...
...years Sam Nunn, the Democratic chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, has been advocating what he calls a "limited-protection system." Last week the Senate endorsed that goal. The gung-ho SDI enthusiasts don't like the scheme because they believe, correctly, that Nunn doesn't want Brilliant Pebbles to get off the ground. On the other side are arms-control purists who see the ABM treaty as holy writ and fear it can't survive any tinkering...
Opponents of the measure, including Sam Nunn, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, had argued that a presidential study commission should precede any green light for women fighter pilots. Though they failed to preserve the aviation ban, adherents of this go-slow approach won support for a 15-member White House-named panel that would present a report to Congress next year on the feasibility of admitting women to a wide variety of combat jobs...