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...Democrats have been winning by filibuster--which requires 60 votes to overcome--what they cannot accomplish on a simple up-or-down vote, since Republicans have 55 Senate seats to their 44. Neutralizing the filibuster may sound like little more than a bit of parliamentary housekeeping, but, given the tactic's long tradition in the Senate, Mississippi Senator Trent Lott christened the move the "nuclear option." Frist ignited the fuse last week, bringing up the long-stalled nomination of Texas Supreme Court Justice Priscilla Owen to the U.S. Court of Appeals, 5th Circuit. Ostensibly, the fight is over a handful...
...amend Rumsfeld's list, and Bush and Congress must accept or reject it by the end of the year. Until then, Thune has vowed to lead the congressional fight to delay the closings and may vote against key White House legislation--bringing new meaning to the election-year tactic of playing to your base. --By Douglas Waller
Direct Action, which shares the R.A.F.'s far-left tactic of attacking military and industrial targets, apparently drew its members from two older terrorist organizations and committed at least 18 assaults in France during 1979 and 1980. Direct Action first claimed to be aligned with the R.A.F. last January after gunning down the French Defense Ministry's chief of arms sales, General René Audran...
...unions, led by the Air Line Pilots Association, were vehemently opposed to a Lorenzo takeover. They feared that he would once again resort to a tactic he had used after Texas Air won a battle for control of Continental Airlines. In 1983 Lorenzo took Continental into bankruptcy proceedings, which enabled the company to void union contracts and slash employee salaries. That maneuver earned Lorenzo a reputation as a union buster...
...feeling somewhat upstaged by the well-oiled conservative machinery, Democratic Senators plan to ask tougher questions of the Reagan nominees, and have hired their own judicial-selection specialist. Some liberal lobbyists are campaigning to head off targeted candidates before the President formally chooses them. One measure of that tactic's success may be the fate of Law Professor Lino Graglia of the University of Texas, who has publicly opposed busing. He is expected to be nominated soon, despite a strong effort to persuade the A.B.A. to find him unacceptable...