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...only major plank remaining in the Lockwoodagenda is his proposal to have the council's chairelected by all students. The council will considerthat measure December 11, and the idea already hasLee's backing...
...were troubled by his refusal in 1986 to join the 49 other Governors in signing a proclamation condemning a 1975 U.N. resolution that equated Zionism with racism. Sununu, whose father is Lebanese, mollified critics with the explanation that he later recognized his mistake and supported the strongly pro-Israel plank in the 1988 Republican platform. "One learns from what goes on," he acknowledged. The flak aimed at Sununu spurred Bush to accelerate by 24 hours his tapping of the chief of staff, after which the criticism subsided...
CONNECTICUT. Opposing his own political party most of the time makes renegade Republican Lowell Weicker a pest to the party pros. But he is their pest. His fabled contrariness (he waged a one-man battle against the party's antiabortion plank) attracts Democrats and independents. This makes it hard for state attorney general Joseph Lieberman, the appealing Democratic nominee, who can't go after Weicker's voting record hard because it is too similar to what his own would...
...litany of unusually specific proposals in the Republican platform is a plank explicitly opposing prison furloughs for murderers. And in a testament to the Bush campaign's utterly shameless exploitation of the issue, media advisor Roger Ailes joked that he only had to decide whether to portray Horton in television commercials "with or without a knife in his hand...
THIS week Schlafly is once again making her presence felt on the national political scene as she is attending the Republican National Convention in New Orleans. She's confident that there won't be any attempt to add a plank supporting ERA to the Republican platform. The party of Lincoln once supported the measure, but changed its stance...