Word: republicans
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THIS YEAR'S contenders for LBJ's old Senate seat have spiced up their tired, worn-out rhetoric with a healthy dash of godless mud-slinging, perhaps hoping to arouse the state's sleeping voters. During the last few weeks, the studied, statesman-like poses originally struck by Republican incumbent John Tower and Democratic challenger Bob Krueger have, in part, given way to the childish stance of petulant name-callers. Virtually devoid of substantive issues, the campaign has become a contest to see who can paint the most nefarious portrait of his opponent. And the prize will most certainly...
...Texas liberals, who can be counted on to poll a solid 30 per cent of the vote just about any time, have learned their lesson. In 1961 hordes of them defected to vote for a small-time Republican political science professor named John Tower, thinking a good liberal could beat him easily the next time around. But Tower was shrewder than they had expected--he managed to build up a base of support that has sustained him in office. This election year marks the most serious challenge Tower has faced since he first went to Washington...
...Teamsters Union gave Carter's inflation program unexpected, though conditional support yesterday, while Republican critics predicted the program would fail, and mandatory controls would be implemented...
Members had to vote on legislation touching on an enormous variety of subjects, from Nobel prizewinners to evidence in rape cases, from drug addicts to Girl Scouts. Often, perplexed Senators and Representatives hardly knew what they were voting on. Said New York Republican Senator Jacob Javits: "I don't know about anyone else, but I'm chaotic...
...followed. Unlike memoirs of the period that have been recollected in tranquillity, Spender's book unfolds like a collection of vintage newsreels. With many members of his generation, the young poet rushed into ideology. He heralded "the birth of a new world" through Marxism, championed the cause of Republican Spain and did his best to see no evil hi the side he supported. If loyalist troops were sometimes brutal, Spender had an answer: "It seems to me that atrocities are a measure of the ignorance and suffering imposed on the isolated people who commit them, and thus they...