Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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THIS EFFORT IS NOT pure and traditional socialism. We're trying to find a point somewhere beyond the New Deal--an American transition," says Don Rose, a Citizens Party organizer and the political strategist behind Chicago Democrat Jane Byrne's mayoral upset. The party filed a statement with the Federal Election Commission, laying out a gentle Party line for the transition: "There is nothing wrong with profit, or with private ownership. What is wrong is when private interest, and not the public good, determines how we live. That is what must be changed, and that is the issue...
...Senate floor, Republican Jacob Javits of New York and Democrat Claiborne Pell of Rhode Island urged that the U.S. and other countries establish a huge airlift of food and medicine into Cambodia if Phnom-Penh persists in refusing to allow a "land bridge" for trucks to enter Cambodia from Thailand with supplies. A bipartisan group of 68 House members urged Carter to set up a joint airlift with the Soviet Union. The plan was first suggested by the Rev. Theodore Hesburgh of the University of Notre Dame. Said he: "I'm perfectly willing to ride in the lead truck...
...Congressman Mario Biaggi and his Irish caucus: I know that [New York Democrat] Biaggi and the people associated with him have publicly declared their support for the Provisional I.R.A. Any group that has close associations with NorAid [Irish Northern Aid Committee, the U.S. organization suspected of funneling funds to the I.R.A.] is making a peaceful solution in Ireland more difficult. People who give any support-moral or real-to the Provisional I.R.A. are making the situation worse...
...praise was by no means unanimous, and among the most vocal critics of the bailout plan was Wisconsin Democrat William Proxmire, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, which must consider the actual legislation involved. He blasted the proposal as "a massive giveaway for the taxpayers, and a massive windfall for the banks, stockholders and others who have the main stake in a Chrysler bailout." He also pledged to make any aid terms "as tough as possible...
...meanwhile tried to downplay and defuse the remarks the President made a week earlier about "punitive actions" that might be taken against the oil majors if the windfall tax did not meet his expectations. A better description of those still unspecified actions, one official suggested, would be "unfriendly." Louisiana Democrat Russell Long, who as chairman of the Senate Finance Committee was a chief target of Carter's latest venting of his frustrations over energy policy, pointed out that on balance the Senate's windfall tax proposal is tougher on the large oil companies than the House version. Said...