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...link to San Francisco, the Golden Gate Bridge, was closed for only the third time since its opening in 1937, forcing thousands to take ferryboats. In Sausalito, a mud flow brought one hillside house slamming down onto two others, killing a woman. Two hundred yards away, Writer Brian Vander Horst watched. Says he: "It happened so fast that two rooms from the falling house were flashing with lights as they came down the hill. Mud was running like molten lava." Surgeon Robert Rabkin had planned to spend Monday night in his Sausalito condominium, but decided at the last moment...
...their part, House Republicans are not anxious to consider new tax increases of any sort. Said Michigan Congressman Guy Vander Jagt, a ranking member of the House Ways and Means Committee: "I personally believe that it would be a disaster to open that can of worms...
...traditionally "safe" Democratic seats. Republicans hope to use the redistricting to help whittle away the current 242-to-190 Democratic majority in the House of Representatives; they even hope to capture control of the House in 1982. "For Democrats, redistricting is an enormous problem," gloats Michigan Representative Guy Vander Jagt, chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee. "For Republicans, it is an enormous opportunity...
With adjournment looming, the 96th Congress moved last week to set itself up for the 97th and Ronald Reagan's White House. Among House Republicans, the preparation took the form of electing Illinois' Robert Michel as minority leader over Michigan's Guy Vander Jagt; obviously, the feeling was that the new President's legislative program stood a better chance against the Democratic majority under Michel's brand of amicable persuasion. Republicans also elected New York's Jack Kemp as chairman of the party's conference, or caucus, and Mississippi's Trent Lott...
Both men claim to hold the 97 votes (out of 192) needed to win. "I don't count them hard unless I've looked at them eyeball to eyeball and shaken their hands," says Michel. Says Vander Jagt: "I count a vote hard when he looks you in the eye." The battle will end next week when House Republicans meet eyeball to eyeball for a secret ballot...