Word: republicans
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With barely a year before the first primaries, the already crowded Republican presidential school is drawn toward Carter like sharks to blood. One after another, the G.O.P. hopefuls last week attacked what now seemed their best immediate target, Carter's foreign policy. Ronald Reagan led the way: "I'm beginning to wonder if the symbol of the United States pretty soon isn't going to be an ambassador with a flag under his arm climbing into the escape helicopter." Former Texas Governor John Connally charged that the coming SALT ΙΙ treaty will do nothing "but legitimize...
...invasion of Viet Nam. Conservative members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee demanded that the enabling legislation for the opening of relations include a strong reassertion of U.S. guarantees to protect Taiwan. For a time, they thought they had the support of both Committee Chairman Frank Church and ranking Republican Member Jacob Javits. Both Senators permitted use of their names on a draft resolution that would brand an armed attack on Taiwan "a common danger to the peace and security" of both Taiwan...
While politicians of both parties scramble to show how austere they can be, both Democrats and Republicans in Congress generally oppose a convention--they would rather keep control of the amendment process themselves. The pressure for a convention comes chiefly from Republican state legislators, and all but five of the 29 states which have already asked Congress to summon a convention are west of the Mississippi--the same area which gave Gerald Ford his near...
Church will back a SALT treaty if he is satisfied that Soviet observance of its terms can be verified. He strongly rejects Republican arguments that such a treaty should be made conditional on more peaceful Soviet behavior elsewhere in the world. Insists Church: "Linking SALT to Soviet activities in Angola or Ethiopia makes no sense at all and is bound to fail. The treaty either serves our national interest or it doesn't. It ought to be judged on its own merits...
Since no party in parliament commands a solid majority, many politicians believe the only hope for a strong government that could impose national belt-tightening lies in a grand coalition between the two biggest political groups: Ecevit's social-democratic Republican People's Party and the main opposition, former Premier Suleyman Demirel's conservative Justice Party. In response to public outrage over the Ipekçj assassinations last week, there were some signs of renewed political moves toward such a government of national unity, even though Ecevit and Demirel are notorious personal antagonists...