Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Republicans are pro-life. Senator Bob Pack- wood (R--Oregon), for example, laments how his party has associated itself so strongly with anti-abortion views, leaving itself vulnerable to a shift in public opinion. "Unless our party changes its position," he told the New York Times this week, "we're going to lose more elections...
Packwood isn't alone. Earlier this week, four Republican Congresswomen, all supporters of abortion-rights, met with President Bush to discuss the issue. They emerged from the meeting with a surprise. The President, they said, no longer rules out federal financing for abortions for poor women in the case of incest and rape. What a difference twelve months makes...
POLITICAL buffs will recall how President Bush called on New York voters during the past mayoral campaign to establish a "Republican beachhead" in New York. Republicans failed in this attempt and in several other election contests. What had begun as George Bush's Republican war ended last week as Ron Brown's Democratic two-pointer...
...editorial in the university newspaper, the Daily Collegian, read this week, "Until the legislature listens, on strike," followed by a blank page...
...After a week of dramatic developments in East European countries, Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev said in Moscow...