Word: republicans
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Some members of Congress who have opposed Carter's program similarly condemned the President's attack-possibly because they saw it, correctly, as a veiled criticism of themselves. Insisted Republican Congressman W. Henson Moore, of oil-producing Louisiana: "The President ran for office urging deregulation and carried Louisiana, Texas and Oklahoma largely because of that position. For him to turn around one year later, point a finger at us and call proponents of deregulation 'energy profiteers' is nothing more than a cheap political shot." The Congressman had a point about Carter's reversal...
...weeks ago Kansas Republican Robert Dole, one of the point men in the Senate conservatives' anti-treaty assault, stirred up worries about the pacts' imprecise language on this and other issues...
...those bruised White House-Hill relations. Referring to the cascade of anti-treaty letters that Senators have been receiving, Jordan snickered that "some of those bastards don't have the spine not to vote their mail. If you change their mail, you change their mind." Said New Jersey Republican Clifford Case, a supporter of the pacts: "That was not helpful...
...last April's mayoral election in Ann Arbor. Van Hattum was among 20 men and wom en who, unknown to them, lived just outside city limits and should not have voted at all. Any one of those 20 votes could have proved decisive, since Democrat James Wheeler defeated Republican Louis Belcher by a margin of one (10,660 to 10,659). County Judge James Kelley thought he could establish the winner of the election simply by asking the 20 illegal voters how they cast their ballots. The first 15 called before him dutifully answered, but when Van Hattum appeared...
...means gone. Last week as the two women received congratulations from friends and supporters, three more victims of the Irish Republican Army's Provisional unit were being buried: a prison guard who was machine-gunned in his car, a school-bus driver who was shot to death as he stopped on his route, and a woman private in the Ulster Defence Regiment, who was gunned down in her mobile home. The third group of attackers even turned their guns on their victim's terrified three-year-old daughter, sending bullets through the Teddy bear she was holding...