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...difficult for any of the other five contenders to garner a majority in the primaries. Though the chance of a brokered outcome remains small, it is now more conceivable that, midway through the primary process, the party elders will strongly press for a Mario Cuomo, Bill Bradley or Sam Nunn to come in and pick up the pieces...
Conventional force levels. Georgia Democrat Sam Nunn will hold hearings in the Armed Services Committee on steps the West should take to reduce the Warsaw Pact's superiority in non-nuclear weapons. Nunn and others believe that imbalance may be more threatening with the elimination of Euromissiles. He is said to be considering a unilateral declaration of objectives that NATO should achieve after passage of the treaty. INF opponents may push for a more lethal amendment that would bar the President from carrying out the treaty's provisions unless the conventional-arms imbalance in Europe is redressed. Senate Majority Leader...
...obstacle to ratification may be the way the Administration is treating that ABM accord. The Administration insists that what the Senate was told by + Government witnesses during ratification hearings is not relevant to what the treaty really means on the subject of space-based defense. This outrages Nunn, who threatens to review the entire negotiation record of the INF pact unless the President and his advisers abandon the notion that they can reinterpret a treaty after the Senate has ratified...
...requested to cut off the vituperation. Result: 58-42 against confirmation, the largest negative vote in history for a Supreme Court nominee. Joining the 54 Senators who had declared their opposition to Bork were Wisconsin Democrat William Proxmire and three surprises: Virginia Republican John Warner, Georgia Democrat Sam Nunn and Mississippi Democrat John Stennis, the Senate's conservative senior member...
...realize both his father's dream and his own, Al Gore is trying to set himself starkly apart from the rest of the Democratic contenders, much to their recent fury. With the decision of Dale Bumpers, Bill Clinton and Sam Nunn to remain on the sidelines, Gore became the only Southerner in the race, a fact he rarely fails to mention during his frequent forays through the region. When Gore is campaigning in Arkansas and Texas, his accent changes subtly as "my" becomes "mah" and "narrow" becomes "narrah." He also proclaims himself a "raging moderate," a distinction he has increasingly...