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...oldtimers, House Speaker Tip O'Neill and Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd now automatically become their party's highest elected officers in national politics. But neither man seems likely to become the voice of the Democrats' future...
...esteemed veterans, who fell partly because Ronald Reagan proved to have unexpectedly broad coattails, and partly because so many voters were in such a throw-out-the-Administration frame of mind that they did not hesitate to extend their anti-Carter ire to Democratic Congressmen. Lamented House Speaker Tip O'Neill: "It was a broad brush they tarred us with...
Both House Speaker Tip O'Neill (D-Mass.) and House Majority leader Jim Wright (D-Tex.) easily weathered the Republican hurricane. In a tough, uphill battle liberal spiritual leader Rep. Morris K. Udall (D-Ariz.), chairman of the House Interior Committee, surprised the grave-watchers and won by an almost two-to-one margin...
...still too early to tell if the Republicans' biggest gamble will pay off: namely, an all-out effort to unseat the House Democratic leaders. Republicans thought they discerned substantial erosion in the Democratic elders' home bases, and indeed some weakness has been exposed. Acknowledges House Speaker Tip O'Neill: "The people who put them in Congress in the first place are no longer around. Their organizations are not there...
...well. A parents' group called the Committee to Stop Children's Murders (Stop) set up shop in June at a local mall, established a 24-hour hotline, and began undertaking some detective work on its own. It receives 20 to 50 calls a day, but not one tip has panned out. Schools are scheduling lessons on street safety taught by visiting police; television coverage has included a film re-enacting some of the crimes; and police fraternal organizations are distributing 100,000 bumper stickers reading: KIDS, DON'T GO WITH STRANGERS. A reward fund contributed...