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...Nunn. The new chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee will also get a lot of visibility. As an enormously popular Georgia moderate, he benefits from the impressive performance of his party in recapturing loyalty in the South...
...toughest task before the new Senate majority will be speaking in a unified voice. There may be a skirmish for the soul of the party between the Kennedy-Cranston Old Guard and a neoliberal faction led by such Senators as Joe Biden of Delaware and Georgia's Sam Nunn. The Democrats have historically been a party of competing factions. Sometimes, as when Southern segregationists of old were filibustering the civil rights legislation of their Northern colleagues, there has been open warfare. The struggle this time around will be more subdued...
...President will run into more opposition on defense spending. As the new chairman of the Armed Services Committee, Georgia's Nunn will continue to be sympathetic to a strong military while casting a skeptical eye on major ; weapons programs. He will also be more involved in arms-control matters...
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Shultz and Nunn also said the Soviets, apparently mindful of the criticism after the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl, seemed to be cooperating in providing information about the accident...