Word: specters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...over in moments. The Boghammar blazed, then sank from view. The two small boats flared too, then drifted. The Corvette sped off toward Farsi. Arriving in two Mark III Sea Specter patrol boats, Navy SEAL commandos rushed to pluck survivors out of the water. They found six Iranian sailors, but three were badly injured and two of them died after being taken to the U.S.S. Raleigh, some 70 miles southeast of the wreckage site. The two small boats were taken under tow. Just how many Iranians were killed in the attack was not known...
...week in which his chances for confirmation dissipated with dizzying speed. First the Senate Judiciary Committee voted 9 to 5 to send the nomination to the floor with a negative recommendation. All three of the panel members who were undecided when the hearings began -- Republican Arlen Specter and Democrats Dennis DeConcini and Howell Heflin -- voted against Bork. The parade of lawmakers announcing their intention to oppose Bork in the full Senate vote accelerated. By Friday, 53 Senators had come out against...
...Specter's decision was a turning point in a grim week for Ronald Reagan's controversial nominee. The same day the Pennsylvanian joined the small band of moderate Republicans who are against Bork, a trio of Southern Democrats, including Louisiana's influential conservative J. Bennett Johnston, said they too would oppose the judge when his nomination comes to a vote. With the Democrats holding a 54-to-46 majority in the Senate, the President had been relying on Southern crossover votes to give his man the 51 yeas he will need for confirmation. Making matters worse for the White House...
Last week Specter, Johnston and several other Senators cited Bork's flip- flops as a major reason for their opposition. "Here is a brilliant scholar going through the agony of public hearings and public scrutiny," said Democrat David Pryor of Arkansas, as he announced his intention to vote against Bork. "And yet we don't know him any better now than we did months ago. I would even submit . . . that he does not know himself...
...White House hoped that Heflin could help the President save face on the Judiciary Committee. But with Specter going against Bork and undecided Arizona Democrat Dennis DeConcini expected to follow suit, even a pro-Bork vote by Heflin at this stage would probably mean nothing more than an 8-to-6 defeat for the nominee rather than a 9-to-5 loss...