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...quarterback for the San Diego Chargers and Buffalo Bills before he decided to call some political plays as a Republican Congressman from the Buffalo, N.Y., suburbs. An outspoken conservative, Kemp was narrowly elected to Congress in 1970, won re-election two years later with 73% of the vote. A staunch environmentalist and strong national security advocate, he introduced 115 bills in Congress during his first term. "Problems are not problems; they are opportunities," Kemp says...
Conservative French Catholics, who believe that Daniélou has been slandered because of his staunch support of the papacy and priestly celibacy, do not agree. They have demanded that the French bishops and the Interior Ministry uncover the full truth about the cardinal's ill-timed demise...
...business; of an apparent heart attack; in Oklahoma City. In 1902 Gaylord bought a piece of the Daily Oklahoman and set up the Oklahoma Publishing Co.-today a conglomerate holding two newspapers, a magazine, eight radio and TV stations, and Oklahoma's largest truck-big express service. A staunch conservative and Prohibitionist, Gaylord practiced daily calisthenics, made business trips well into his 90s, and put in a full day at the office the day of his death...
Even the more staunch supporters of women's liberation agreed that the essence of choice should be the overriding concern in any woman's life--that a woman who chooses to stay at home with children should not be made to feel guilty...
...Schmidt succeeded his former mentor Schiller as Finance Minister and tackled Germany's major economic problem: inflation, now running at 7.8% a year. A staunch proponent of a free market, Schmidt relied on tight-money policies rather than wage and price controls, an approach that has helped earn him the enmity of the Jusos, who make up about 25% of his own party. Last week Juso Chairman Heidi Wieczorek-Zeul called Schmidt "the worst possible choice" as Brandt's successor. Schmidt has also recently been at odds with the S.P.D.'s coalition partners, the Free Democrats...