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Representative Barbara Mikluski beat Republican Linda Chavez in a two-woman race to succeed retiring Republican Senator Charles "Mac" Mathias. In the governor's race, Baltimore Mayor William Donald Schaefer won.
Although his confirmation as the 16th Chief Justice of the U.S. was all but certain, William Rehnquist received only grudging approval from the U.S. Senate last week. Democrats castigated his caustic opposition to civil rights programs and questioned his ability to serve as a "symbol of justice" for the nation...
Last week the committee opened for testimony. Impatience is already running high. A nine-member House team of "managers," or prosecutors, in the case, led by Judiciary Committee Chairman Peter Rodino, asked that the Senate find Claiborne guilty on the spot, using just the evidence that he is a convicted...
But last week the Justice Department handed the memos over. They proved less than explosive, and the heat quickly drained from the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings. Said Republican Senator Charles Mathias: "There's nothing that can be characterized as a smoking gun."
Voting on straight party lines, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee rejected an attempt by Democrats to approve a sweeping, near total trade embargo on South Africa as passed by the House. But Republican Senators Charles Mathias of Maryland and Daniel Evans of Washington succeeded in persuading the committee and its...