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Among the 3,500 protesters who have been arrested, paid fines or spent short periods in jail are 23 U.S. Congressmen, Connecticut Senator Lowell Weicker, Singer Harry Belafonte, Amy Carter and two of Ethel and Robert Kennedy's children, Rory and Douglas. As the protests spread, the House and Senate introduced bills calling for action against South Africa, and Ronald Reagan came up with his own list of sanctions...
...others bear their burdens and eliminate their challenges are seeking to avoid the central issues of their lives." Gardner's views might have gone unnoticed but for the fact that she began work last week as a special assistant to Secretary of Education William Bennett. Connecticut Republican Senator Lowell Weicker Jr., the father of a five-year-old son born with Down's syndrome, said last week of her statements, "I've never seen such a callousness as long as I have been here in Washington...
...Weicker, chairman of the subcommittee that appropriates education funds, criticized another newly appointed Bennett aide, Lawrence Uzzell, who wants to abolish the department's National Institute of Education, which conducts and funds research. Arguing that Gardner and Uzzell held views contrary to the department's purpose, the Senator suggested that no money be approved for their salaries. Bennett at first contended that Gardner's views were her personal religious beliefs and denied that either her or Uzzell's opinions on these matters would affect their official roles. But after two days of increasing public outcry, Bennett accepted the resignations...
...Lowell Weicker, the former independent-ticket Governor of Connecticut who is pondering an independent run for President, credits Perot with drawing attention to political reform and to that "crazy aunt in the basement"--the federal budget deficit. But, Weicker adds, "I don't know many people of an independent frame of mind who are going to accept Perot's conditions" to run under the Independence Party banner...
...always a ratings grabber, like when some Republicans in the U.S. Senate locked themselves in their offices to quash a vote on a campaign-finance-reform bill in 1988, causing a sergeant at arms to carry Bob Packwood feetfirst to the Senate floor (after determining that Lowell Weicker was too heavy). The stunt pulled by Democrats in the Texas legislature last week was to avoid a vote on redistricting the state to create more Republican members of Congress...