Word: richardson
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Elliot L. Richardson '41 and Raymond Shamie, and they both want the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in Massachusetts...
Consequently, both Richardson and Shamie have gone to great lengths to point up their similarities to the Great Communicator. The problem is that the two have widely divergent views on many foreign policy matters, and have strikingly different approaches to government and their prospective roles as senator...
...Richardson claims that top-level Administration officials personally asked him to run for Senate after Tsongas' withdrawal even as he criticizes Reagan nuclear policy and involvement in Central America. The Law of the Sea Treaty, described by one-time delegation head Richardson as his greatest achievement, was scuttled by the newly-elected Reagan, who said its terms were unfavorable...
...paper, Richardson appears to be in better shape. Polls show him leading all candidates in the race, and his 35-year political career easily makes him the best known of the top four contenders. Like many Republican Senators and Congressmen in the Northeast, he is a moderate, favoring a reduction in nuclear armaments, opposing the B-1 bomber and MX missile, and supporting the Contadora call for negotiations in Central America...
...April, Richardson was quoted as saying he "might well have joined the rebellion against" the right-wing Salvadoran government before the rebels received Cuban and Soviet backing. Shamie called Richardson "naive" and said in a statement released by his office, "I would not have joined the Marxist rebels in Salvador, even if they had never been supplied by Cuba and Russia. They have killed innocent people, and terrorized thousands of ordinary El Salvadoreans for trying to vote...