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...acutely aware that the actions of Volcker or his successor will have a crucial influence on interest rates and the availability of credit and that this will determine the health of the economy. "Everywhere I go in my district, people ask me about you," New Jersey Congresswoman Marge Roukema told Volcker last week. "They think it's important that you be reappointed, and so do I." Replied the chairman, noncommittally as usual: "Thank you, thank you very much...
...California, are mainly Republican and conservative. One of them is Lynn Martin, whose budget-cutting assaults as a member of the Illinois legislature earned her a nickname: "the Ax." After criss-crossing her district for 26,000 miles, she won the seat vacated by John Anderson. Former Schoolteacher Marge Roukema knocked off liberal Democrat Andrew Maguire in New Jersey on her second try. And Claudine Schneider, an environmentalist from Narragansett, became the first woman elected to high office in Rhode Island, and the first Republican to go to Congress from there since...
...party organizations; instead of smoke-filled rooms, most nominees are now chosen in open primaries. And they are finding a new willingness on the part of local groups and national party leaders to contribute money to women's campaigns. For example, in 1978 New Jersey Republican Marge Roukema, 51, raised only $142,000 and lost by 6% of the vote to Democratic Incumbent Andrew Maguire, 41. Says she: "I had fund-raising trouble. I was victimized by people who said, 'She's a woman. Let's hope that she doesn't embarrass herself.' " This...
...Jonestown massacre may have played a role in the deaths. Others see a deeper malaise. They talk of a workaholic climate in Ridgewood's school system, which sends 80% of its graduates on to college, many to first-rank universities. "The pressures are high," says Richard Roukema, chief of psychiatry at Ridgewood's Valley Hospital. "You add to that a high divorce rate and a high number of dead marriages, and you see a lot of youngsters in isolation, not relating to their parents...