Word: democratic
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Senator Bill Bradley is a Democrat who has been hammering away at the importance of the Third World debt issue for years. He praises the Bush Administration for realizing that "the answer to the problem of too much debt is not more debt but less." That may sound like mere common sense, but Republicans must overcome a distrust of giveaways and interference in the private sector. "It is an ideological breakthrough," says former Assistant Secretary of State Robert Hormats...
Known throughout his five congressional terms chiefly for his bombast, Democrat Gus Savage of Chicago is in a peck of trouble. He has been accused by a woman Peace Corps volunteer of engaging in sexual misconduct...
...Legal. But pro-choice sentiment is frustrated as far as Virginia's gubernatorial race is concerned. The Republican candidate, former state attorney general Marshall Coleman, is a strict antiabortionist who says that if he wins, he will appoint only pro-lifers to health and children's services positions. His Democratic opponent, Lieutenant Governor Douglas Wilder, is seeking to become the first black elected to govern a state, and will not risk alienating moderate voters. So he has been waffling on abortion, proposing that parental consent be required for abortions on girls 18 and under and refusing to say whether...
...dependence on foreign tankers in its harbors. Last year foreign producers provided the U.S. with 37% of its oil supplies, up from 27% in 1985. Since foreign oil enters the country mostly by tanker, growing imports only increase the odds of new spills. According to projections by Ohio Democrat Mary Oakar, chairwoman of the House Economic Stabilization Subcommittee, by the end of the 1990s as much as 90% of the oil consumed in the U.S. could arrive by tanker, up from about 65% now. A serious, renewed campaign of energy conservation would help stem that tanker flow and pay other...
...patriotism. The Senate voted 97-to-3 for a resolution by majority leader George Mitchell and minority leader Bob Dole that expressed "profound disappointment" in the decision. "I will join the efforts of other members of Congress in rectifying this action, including supporting a constitutional amendment, if necessary," Georgia Democrat Sam Nunn declared...