Word: reagan
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...Attorney General. Finch, however, is in a delicate political dilemma. Now lieutenant governor of California, he has built an impressive constituency among moderate Republicans and independents at home. He would like to run for the U.S. Senate or the governorship in 1970, but both George Murphy and Ronald Reagan seem to like their current roles, and will probably seek reelection. Finch, 43, must either return home to tend to his political power base or come to Washington and risk losing the California support that some Republicans think might propel him to the G.O.P. presidential nomination...
Last month, Murray urged students at Fresno State College to ''kill all the slave masters," among whom he later counted President Johnson, Chief Justice Warren and Governor Reagan. A few days afterward he told students at S.F. State to bring guns on the campus for "self-defense...
...other Republicans who may well have benefited from the closeness of the election stand at opposite ends of the ideological spectrum and opposite ends of the country: John Lindsay and Ronald Reagan. Mayor Lindsay's future depends largely on his agility in leaping from floe to floe in the sea of troubles surrounding New York City. Ronald Reagan, who was reportedly offered a Cabinet post before the Republican Convention, plans to stay on in California as Governor. So far, his objectives have been largely limited to economizing, but if he hopes to run for re-election...
...five states?Colorado, North Carolina, Georgia and Maryland?also authorize abortion if the child is likely to be born defective, as is commonly the case if the mother has had German measles (rubella) within the first three months of pregnancy. California did not sanction this ground because Governor Ronald Reagan threatened to veto any bill that included...
California's experience has been comparable. The main difference in principle is the Reagan-dictated exclusion of fetal indications. The numbers are larger, reflecting the difference in the states' populations. In the first half of 1968 there were 2,324 applications for therapeutic abortion, of which 207 were rejected. Of the 2,117 patients who won approval, 92 did not go through with the operation. No fewer than 1,777 of the abortions performed, or 83%, were on the ground that continued pregnancy would gravely impair the woman's mental health, and only 115 because of a threat...