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Isaacson said she believes that senators have tired of debating the bill, and that the ruling by Bulger, a staunch opponent of the bill in past years, expresses an overall desire to bring the bill to a vote...
Mobuto is a staunch ally of the United States. Much like Marcos in the Philipines, Noriega in Panama, Pinochet in Chile and the leaders of many other banana republics, Mobuta has been an S.O.B., but he's been our S.O.B. Loyal to a fault, he has kept communism from becoming a force in Black Africa's second largest country...
...applause was equally thunderous from liberals and conservatives in the U.S. New York Times columnists Anthony Lewis, a staunch liberal, and William Safire, a stalwart conservative, hardly ever agree on anything, but both hailed Bush's plan in facing columns last week...
...Francis Doris, a staunch abortion opponent, agreed that the debate was not over abortion...
...ways to cope with the surge in semiautomatic sales. Advisers from Barbara Bush to Los Angeles Police Chief Daryl Gates pleaded with the President to outlaw the guns. For several weeks Bush had discussed the semiautomatic-weapons dilemma with his friend Senator James McClure, an Idaho Republican and staunch gun-rights defender. The President was torn between wanting to protect the rights of sportsmen and the lives of police officers...