Word: controller
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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They are indeed. The Republicans had seized control of the Senate, 53 to 46 (Virginia's Harry Byrd is an independent), and narrowed the Democratic margin in the House from 114 to 50, sweeping out many liberals in the process. Republicans are poised to pass conservative legislation, working hand in hand with Ronald Reagan. "We're not going to be arrogant or gloat," said South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond who, in one of the most startling shifts, will replace Kennedy as chairman of the influential Judiciary Committee, "but we're going to be determined to bring some...
Thurmond wants to give the states more control over voting rights, to reinstitute the death penalty for serious crimes and to eliminate some of the due-process protections suspected criminals have acquired under Supreme Court decisions but which police officers claim hamper their work. He also wants to increase federal sentences for the possession of marijuana and to tighten immigration laws. Argues Thurmond: "I don't think people ought to be allowed to come into this country just because they want to come here." In his view, most of the Cubans, Haitians and Asians arriving in the country...
...dust has hardly settled over the rubble of the Democratic Party after its election collapse, but leading members are already jostling to rebuild - and control - the organization. Skirmishing has centered on the chairmanship of the Democratic National Committee, the logical position of power from which to direct a Democratic renaissance. Admits Chairman John C. White, 56, who was elected in 1978: "This is the only bone in the yard...
...numbered, and the names of possible successors are floating around Washington as thick and fast as the résumés of out-of-work Democrats. Supporters of Edward Kennedy and Walter Mondale, now the two most obvious contenders for the presidency in 1984, are eager to gain control of the D.N.C. Senator Birch Bayh and House Majority Whip John Brademas, both from Indiana and both defeated two weeks ago, are mentioned as Kennedy's favorites. Mondale is said to prefer Charles T. Manatt, head of the D.N.C. finance committee for the past two years. Robert Strauss, Carter...
...special coverage of the flyby on public television, President Carter telephoned his congratulations to the NASA team for their space spectacular. He also had some cheering news for the men and women of Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in the foothills near Pasadena, who designed the spacecraft and control its mission. They fear that U.S. ambitions in interplanetary space may be rapidly dwindling, but the President announced the inclusion of $40 million in start-up funding in the fiscal 1982 budget for VOIR. That is an acronym for the Venus Orbiting Imaging Radar mission, a new project that...