Word: republican
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Question 3: Do we need a new political party in this country which represents the interests of working people, poor people, minorities, women, environmentalists, peace activists and all people who are not being adequately represented by the Democratic and Republican parties...
...continued esteem of the thrift industry for his consistently low estimates of the extent of the savings and loan debacle. He is a stolid former city planner from Salt Lake City whose only extravagance seems to be his natty suits and monogrammed shirts. As the top aide to Republican Senator Jake Garn of Utah when Garn was chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, Wall became a favorite of S & L owners. Says Senator Leach of Wall's 1987 appointment: "The industry got to choose outright its regulator...
...attack on the headquarters of the left-leaning National Federation of Salvadoran Workers that killed ten people. The bombing was widely attributed to the right-wing death squads, which, after slumbering for several years, are once again marauding throughout El Salvador. The rebels hold Cristiani and his rightist Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) government responsible for both the resurgence of the death squads and the arrest, injury or killing of more than 400 suspected guerrilla sympathizers in recent months. It is likely that last week's offensive was at least in part a response to the wave of death-squad attacks...
...prohibit retired congressional and Executive Branch employees from lobbying their former colleagues for one year. Then they left the pay- for-ethics package in place for the House (along with the raises for judges and bureaucrats), but rejected it for themselves. At week's end, after three attempts by Republican Senator Jesse Helms of North Carolina to scuttle the raise, Majority Leader George Mitchell realized he did not have the votes to win approval of the House plan...
Tsongas said he was willing to discuss ideas with both Democratic and Republican candidates for governor and planned to continue in his unpaid job as chair of the Board of Regents of Higher Education...