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...least four cases, political connections eased the way, and four other appointments promoted district judges previously named under predominantly political sponsorship. For example, Robert Vance, nominee for the Fifth Circuit, is the longtime Alabama Democratic Party chairman; Tennessee's Gilbert Merritt had contributed to Democratic Senator James Sasser's 1976 campaign (as had Merritt's two minor children); Thomas Tang of Arizona has close ties to Democratic Senator Dennis DeConcini. Yet even Republicans acknowledge that the nominees have good credentials, and the four trial court judges being moved up-Damon Keith of Michigan, Leon Higgenbotham of Pennsylvania...
...blows as the questioning continued into the weekend, Lance clearly picked up some support on the 17-member committee. As of last week, the committee apparently was almost evenly divided. Seven Senators leaned toward support of the Budget Director (Democrats Thomas Eagleton, Henry Jackson, John Glenn, Sam Nunn, James Sasser, and Lawton Chiles and Republican John Danforth); six seemed to oppose him (Democrat Abraham Ribicoff and Republicans Charles Percy, Jacob Javits, Charles Mathias, William Roth and H. John Heinz). Four Senators appeared undecided (Democrats Ed Muskie and John McClellan were absent from the hearing, Lee Metcalf said little and Republican...
...stock (TIME, July 25), and it had seemed assured that the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee would grant the delay. But last week, after newspapers covered Lance with the appearance of new improprieties, the committee stalled and invited him to testify this week. That forced Lance, as Tennessee Democrat James Sasser put it, "to twist in the wind for a few more days...
Brock engineered his victory by presenting himself as everyone's second choice. He was plagued by a loser's image after James Sasser, a former chairman of Tennessee's Democratic Party, took away his Senate seat in November. But the handsome Brock, heir to a candy making fortune, is a good nuts-and-bolts organizer who is conservative enough for Reagan's people though he backed Ford for the presidency last year. He has opposed foreign aid and handgun licensing, but did vote with the liberals against no-knock legislation...
...Senator, Sasser will vote most often with the moderates. He claims to be a Carter-style populist and a disciple of Gore and the late Estes Kefauver. Sasser's manner, Kennedy-esque good looks and ready wit mark him as an attractive Senate newcomer worth watching-particularly since he will have a close, and grateful, friend in the White House...