Word: republicans
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...begin in earnest. At stake is not just a treaty, but ten years of nuclear arms negotiations and the very nature of the relationship between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. Friend and foe of the treaty in the Senate feel they have embarked, in the words of Republican Treaty Opponent Jesse Helms of North Carolina, "on what may be the most significant national debate of our time...
...doubt. Democratic Whip Alan Cranston of California, a leading SALT supporter, counts no more than 58 votes for the treaty and 30 against, leaving twelve Senators wholly undecided. The opponents have similar head counts. Thus, for the moment, the treaty is in what Alaska's Ted Stevens, a Republican opponent, calls a "never-never land," a standoff in which treaty backers have enough votes to block crippling amendments or a filibuster but lack the 67 votes that constitute the two-thirds majority needed to approve the pact...
...decision stick on a secondary issue of foreign policy that Congress in happier times would have been content to leave to the President. Last week the Senate voted 52-41 in favor of a measure sponsored by Virginia's Harry Byrd to lift the sanctions. South Carolina Republican Strom Thurmond caught the mood of the Senate's conservatives when he thundered that the guerrilla movements "are armed and guided by the Soviet Union, China, Cuba and other Communist states. We must not give aid or comfort to guerrillas who would overthrow a democratic government and install a Marxist...
Answer: C. Republican Senator Malcolm Wallop of Wyoming said one of his constituents had found the test "disgusting." The Senator demanded an explanation from the Department of Labor, which incorporates the Mine Safety and Health Administration. Answered Assistant Labor Secretary Robert Lagather: "This test is not part of the instructor course. I was as shocked and disturbed as you were." Lagather recommended a 30-day suspension without pay for the instructor who had used the quiz. Just for good measure, however, Wallop had the exam read into the Congressional Record, where presumably its vulgarity will serve as a good example...
DIED. Leonard Hall, 78, former Republican Congressman from Long Island who, as G.O.P. national chairman in the mid '50s, helped persuade Dwight Eisenhower to run for a second term despite his 1955 heart attack, and then orchestrated his big 1956 win over Democrat Adlai Stevenson; of a stroke; in Glen Cove...