Word: republicans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Taiwan's longtime friends in the Senate were furious over the rapprochement with Peking. Utah Republican Orrin Hatch contemptuously called Carter's foreign affairs advisers "loose-jointed and weak-kneed diplomats" and declared that the President should have held out for a better deal on Taiwan. Said Hatch: "All he had to do was stand fast. Mainland China needs this relationship more than the U.S. does." Arizona Republican Barry Goldwater accused Carter of having committed "one of the most cowardly" presidential acts in history and threatened to sue him in court on the questionable ground that a President cannot cancel...
...Charges of bribery became so rampant in the last election that a federal grand jury is now investigating. This week local residents are giving testimony concerning charges that votes were bought to elect Democrat Congressman Claude ("Buddy") Leach, 44. While Leach ran a tight race with his Republican opponent, Jimmy Wilson, 47, in most of the Fourth Congressional District, he piled up pluralities as high as 13 to 1 in Vernon Parish, enabling him to edge to victory by 266 votes out of 130,900 cast. Pledging to file fraud charges with both the Administration Committee of the House...
Scene 1: Hollywood actress takes the Concorde to Paris, where she will make a movie called, of all things, Airport 79, the Concorde. On the flight, she chats with a handsome Republican Senator from Illinois going to Europe to evaluate the reaction to President Carter's energy policy. Scene 2: On a boat trip on the Seine the next day, the Senator and his wife pass by the film location. He is hailed and invited to be interviewed by his friend from the plane, who plays a TV anchorwoman in the movie. Ending: Senator Charles Percy winds up getting...
...encounter difficulties in exercising power. They need to form alliances with white politicians, and they find such alliances unreliable in a time of growing conservatism. California's Jerry Brown angered blacks by his tepid support for his running mate, Lieutenant Governor Mervyn Dymally, who lost to a conservative Republican, and for former Congresswoman Yvonne Brathwaite Burke, who lost her campaign for attorney general. Even Ted Kennedy, who remains the most popular white politician among black voters, raised hackles in black communities by campaigning for Ed Brooke's Democratic opponent. Says Massachusetts State Senator Bill Owens...
DIED. William A. Steiger, 40, genial, dynamic, six-term Republican Congressman from Wisconsin; of a heart attack; in Washington, D.C. A native of Oshkosh, Steiger served for six years as a state assemblyman before winning election to the U.S. Congress at age 28. A self-described moderate Republican, he co-sponsored the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, helped launch the volunteer Army, and this year proposed cutting the maximum capital gains tax from 49% to 25%. Despite opposition from President Carter, Steiger's colleagues eventually set the maximum tax rate...