Word: republicans
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Returning from New York, Carter reached Washington in time to see a Senate committee chew a few more morsels out of his energy program and add to his griefs over the Panama Canal treaties. Kansas Republican Robert Dole raised a modest storm by disclosing a confidential State Department cable quoting a Panamanian diplomat as saying that Panama could not "agree to the right of the U.S. to intervene" militarily after 1999. What's more, the diplomat vowed, U.S. warships could not "go to the head of the line" to transit the canal in case of an emergency. The cable...
Byrd laid out his scheme at a meeting of key Democratic Senators and Republican Howard Baker, the minority leader. Byrd proposed calling up the remaining 300 or so amendments and immediately getting them ruled out of order. The group decided that Mondale should preside over the session, reading rulings from a prepared script and ensuring that Byrd could hold the floor without interruption while the amendments were being killed...
...wouldn't do that." Metzenbaum asked Senator Edward Kennedy about the same rumor; Kennedy too expressed disbelief. Mondale, meanwhile, was also busy buttonholing four Senators considered soft in their support of deregulation: Democrats Quentin Burdick of North Dakota, Wendell Ford of Kentucky and Dennis DeConcini of Arizona; and Republican John Chafee of Rhode Island. The Vice President told them that the President would see them, one by one, if they wished; all four accepted the offer and were whisked off in waiting White House cars...
Andrus may get even more than he expects. Two weeks ago, hundreds of California farmers ringed the San Diego convention center, where the state Republican Party was holding its annual meeting, waving placards that read FAIRNESS FOR FARMERS and SAVE THE IMPERIAL VALLEY. As more than 50 huge tractors churned around the building, farmers warned that the show was only a dress rehearsal for an even larger demonstration scheduled for Oct. 22 in Los Angeles -where President Carter will address a Democratic Party fund-raising dinner...
...decade he had been tried in the fire of the nation's anti-communist paranoia. Brought before the House Committee on Un-American activities, Fast refused to release a list of contributors to the Spanish Refugee Appeal, a group providing medical help to the Spanish Republican forces opposing Franco's fascist movement. This refusal earned Fast, a director of the organization, a three-month term in jail for contempt of Congress. And for years afterward Fast was unable to find a publisher who would handle his work...