Word: republican
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...GROUP OF leading liberals, fearing that Kennedy may abandon the faith, have banded together to advance their own candidate--probably ecologist Barry Commoner--in 1980. The new Citizens Party hopes to draw on the common belief that the Democratic and Republican Parties are more alike than different and have failed to address the causes of the nation's economic failures...
...energy crisis, and that he would do all in his power to stop them. At that time, he proposed a crude oil equalization tax, which would have taxed all profits oil companies gained from a loosening of price controls. When the measure failed to pass, he switched to the Republican solution--oil price decontrol. He did not, as he should have, make his decision to decontrol oil prices conditional on a strong windfall profits tax. Nor did he push for legislation requiring the oil giants to invest the billions they will gain from his decontrol decision in energy development...
...Cambodia returned with searing eyewitness accounts of mass starvation. Three U.S. Senators, the first American officials to visit the Cambodian capital of Phnom-Penh since the fall of Lon Nol, testified before Edward Kennedy's Senate Judiciary Committee that famine and disease threatened to extinguish the entire Cambodian people. Republican John Danforth of Missouri said he and his colleagues had visited camps in Thailand that were simply "ground with people strewn over it." Danforth argued that "hundreds of thousands of people [are] at death's door. We saw people who couldn't walk 100 yards." Said Democrat James Sasser...
...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...
...Provisional Irish Republican Army, ostensible champions of Northern Ireland's Roman Catholic minority, rejected the Pontiffs appeal brusquely: "In all conscience we believe that force is the only means of removing the evil of the British presence in Ireland...