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California Democrat Alan Cranston complained that Lefever "seems to have a blind eye to human rights violations by right-wing military dictatorships." Indeed, Lefever has been an apologist for governmental repression in South Africa, South Korea and Chile-governments he defends as merely "authoritarian"-on the unsure ground that these allies are relatively more free than fully "totalitarian" Communist societies. Lefever said he deplored the Carter Administration's tendency to chide certain U.S. allies publicly about their human rights violations. "I don't regard myself as a one-man Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval," he told the committee...
Many Congressmen need no great urging. Democratic Whip Alan Cranston of California counted a majority of 51 Senators opposed to any AWACS sale; 46 already have gone on record against it. So have 78 Representatives, and House leaders say a majority probably is opposed. Moreover, the opposition includes not only traditional Democratic friends of Israel but staunchly conservative Republicans who are stalwart Reaganites on most other issues. Concedes a senior Reagan political adviser: "As of today, the Saudi deal would not get through Congress...
Hans L. Heimann Cranston...
...spending bill by April 15. Moreover, he predicts that it will contain $25 billion to $30 billion in spending reductions. Jones' estimate is the lowest. Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker guesses that Reagan will get 90% of the reductions he wants, and Senate Democratic Whip Alan Cranston forecasts...
...there is strong reason for it. Public-opinion polls have consistently shown popular majorities in favor of lower spending. Reagan's impressive victory last November convinced nearly all legislators, Democratic as well as Republican, that the polls are reading the public mood correctly. Says Democratic Senate Whip Alan Cranston of California: "The attitude among Democrats here is that we can't be in the position of preventing him from trying what he was elected to do. We can't go along on every detail, but if we obstructed everything, it would be bad for the country...