Word: republican
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...Only several years down the road, during the hysteria produced by the red-baiting campaign of Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin, Harvard professors would face a serious threat to their academic freedom...
Long-shot Republican presidential candidate Gary Bauer attacked the Clinton administration's China trade policy at a forum on the 10th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre at Lamont Library last Thursday...
...Yoda of the arms trade. Formerly the Defense Department's export czar, he knows every sinkhole in the regulatory swamp. Ignore him at your peril--as executives of Space Systems/Loral found out. A 700-page report to be issued this week by a select House committee chaired by Republican Representative CHRISTOPHER COX of California tells how, on April 11, 1996, Bryen warned Loral President Robert Berry not to give China any technical help without first getting State Department permission. Berry had just announced the assignment of top company engineer Wah Lim to head a panel of Western scientists who would...
Wisdom was also a man of his time. A member of the elite white class of New Orleans and a dedicated Republican, he belonged to private clubs that excluded blacks and Jews. "They know how I stand on these matters," he said. "I certainly wouldn't change their views by getting out." Perhaps not. But Wisdom's opinions certainly moved us closer to the time when no element of society is excluded from enjoying the fruits of our democracy...
...soft-money donations. Majority leader Dick Armey and whip Tom DeLay each got $9,900 in their most recent elections; 178 House members were on the N.R.A.'s recipient list as it distributed $1.63 million in all, with an additional $350,000 in soft money going to the Republican Party. So House members aren't thrilled to be jumping into a gun-control debate. The same day the Senate was voting on the gun-show provision, House Republican leaders canceled a markup of an important spending bill after Democrats made it known they would offer gun-control amendments...