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Democrats on Capitol Hill are not sorry to see Gramm go. Said Tony Coelho of California, chairman of the House Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee: "This gives him the martyr's role - and he loves it." To Democrats, Gramm was a traitor. While lobbying for a seat on the Budget Committee in 1981, Gramm assured party leaders that he would support a Democratic budget plan. Four months later, he not only co-sponsored the President's budget plan against the committee alternative but, charged the Democrats, also fed reports on confidential Democratic strategy sessions to David Stockman, Reagan...
...when Minister of the Interior Gaston Deferre arrived at Goldenberg's a short while after the attack, a mob gathered outside appeared intent on a lynching. "Mitterrand traitor!" "Mitterrand assassin!" they yelled at the President's representative as the police struggled to maintain control. Deferre took in the scene, said nothing, and quickly left...
When the French President attended a memorial service for the victims of last week's shootings, Jewish demonstrators shouted, "Mitterrand is a traitor!" Deeply affected, Mitterrand said after the service, "I have always been a friend of the Jewish community of France...
...International Association of Convention and Visitors Bureaus protested the measure at its annual meeting. Don Tennant, president of his own advertising agency in Chicago, went further and criticized President Reagan, even though the White House has not taken a position on the issue. Said Tennant: "Reagan is a traitor to his class...
...death hangs heavy over Ezra Pound's garden in Rapallo, Italy, during the fateful March of 1945. As he awaits the advance of the U.S. Army and his arrest for making treasonous broadcasts, the mad poet bids a venomous farewell to "poor old Hugh Selwyn Mauberley-arse-eyed traitor to the whole world!" Indeed, the fleeing Mauberley presents a threat to both Axis and Allies: he has seen atrocities on both sides and he is ready to bear witness...