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...coup. Ex-General Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, 64, tough right-wing dictator from 1953 until he was overthrown in 1957, is barred by law from politics, lives in semi-exile in his backlands home. Under no such restraint, his resurgent party lambasted President Guillermo León Valencia's bipartisan government for higher income taxes, deficit spending and spiraling living costs. Rojas-backed candidates piled up 21% of the vote, to win 27 seats v. six in the last Congress. Though the ruling Liberal-Conservative front was still well in control, Rojas' rise could pose a serious threat...
Last year the House Republicans made foreign aid a partisan measure. Ignoring Speaker McCormack's call for a bipartisan approach, they lined up almost to a man behind their leadership in demanding deep cuts in the authorization. Johnson, who has quite a bit of skill at such matters, could accept this challenge if he wanted to. He could make foreign aid an essential part of his political program instead of leaving it in the no-man's-land of "bipartisan foreign policy." Foreign policy is not bipartisan in an election year, and if Johnson would be willing to expend...
Among the favorite political pastimes of Michigan's Republican Governor George Romney is making frequent speeches that cite percentage figures for the progress of his programs, plead for bipartisan unity, exhort Michiganders to "put an end to stalemate and drift" and "move forward...
Lodge's list of assets is an impressive one. In a campaign which undoubtedly will be dominated--if the Republicans have their way--by foreign affairs, he has a distinguished record. His appointment to the south Vietnamese post by President Kennedy was, in effect, a bipartisan recognition of this fact. And few will forget his highly successful years as ambassador to the United Nations...
Mahoney assured the other Councillors that the two measures were "virtually consistent" with each other, despite their different approaches. He particularly praised H2112, because of its bipartisan support. That measure was filed by Reps. Mary B. Newman (R), Levin H. Campbell '48 (R), and William P. Homans, Jr. '41, all of Cambridge...