Word: repealer
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...prefers raising Shetland ponies to playing politics but has never lost an election. Anderson has been a topflight county attorney and state senator, has served for the past four years as attorney general under his election victim, Democratic Governor George Docking. Liberal by Kansas G.O.P. standards (he favors repeal of the state's right-to-work laws), Anderson had to beat out his party's choice for the nomination in a primary. Major campaign promise: more cash for state schools...
Specifically, the picketers will demand immediate action on civil rights embracing the provisions of Section III of the 1967 Civil Rights Act, repeal of the Senate fillbuster rule, and powerful new legislation. Article II gives the President power to call out Federal judges to hear appeals in charges of discrimination in registration. However, this power has, so far, been unused...
...until he has some other means for protecting his rights. To establish a basis for the operation of international law is indeed a difficult job. There are many road-blocks to be removed--the right of self-determination (in cases of revolution) to be accepted by the Communist world, repeal of the Connelly amendment by the United States, recognition of Red China, etc. Adjustments must be made by both the East and the West. Throughout his turbulent existence, man has lived by the sword. War, today is not considered a very serious undertaking when we openly pledge to sacrifice...
Goldwater's final difficulty is that he underestimates the true conservatism of the American people, the unwillingness to abandon a program once it has been around for a while and is working fairly well. About the only "welfare" program the people have found repugnant enough in practice to repeal was prohibition...
Said Arkansas Senator J. William Fulbright, who will carry the brunt of the load in the Senate drive for repeal: "As much as some Americans may dislike it, the U.S. has been thrust into the center of world affairs. Either we move to strengthen the mechanisms of world peace -of which the World Court is a conspicuous example-or we continue to suffer increasingly the frustrations of a world in which there is no real peace...