Word: bipartisanism
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Diehard military men, bent on short-circuiting the sure election of Civilian Alberto Lleras Camargo as bipartisan President of Colombia, brazenly kidnaped five top Colombians last week. The victims: four of the five joint presidents who make up the military junta that dumped Dictator Gustavo Rojas Pinilla last May-and Candidate Lleras himself...
...thought your article gave a fair and objective coverage of a situation that is difficult to report without taking sides; it was bipartisan and showed how reasoning and sense disappeared when an irresistible force (Walter Reuther) met an immovable object (Herbert Kohler...
Four Republican and three Democratic Senators last week signed the most scathing bipartisan indictment of a large segment of U.S. organized labor to come out of a congressional committee since the unions hit their heyday under the New Deal. In an interim report based on 16,000 interviews by investigators, testimony by 486 witnesses at hearings and 17,485 transcript pages, a special Senate committee headed by Arkansas Democrat John McClellan freely used such words as "plunder" and "hoodlums," "gangsters" and "thievery" and "collusion," and "crime against the community." Major finding: "Union funds in excess of $10 million were either...
...Valencia is bitter. "If I had not entered the battle against Rojas Pinilla's dictatorship last year," he said last week, "Gómez would still be in Barcelona." He thereupon announced that if Lleras Camargo and Gómez name some other Conservative as the bipartisan candidate, he himself will also run and thus again open the door to dangerous strife and rivalry...
...Senate Judiciary Committee, nine out of 15 members, led by Tennessee's Democrat Estes Kefauver and Illinois' Republican Everett Dirksen, were co-sponsoring a bipartisan constitutional amendment designed to wrap up last fortnight's historic-but informal-Eisenhower-Nixon agreement that the Vice President becomes Acting President in event of presidential disability (TIME, March 17). But doubts were mounting about whether the amendment would ever get the needed two-thirds majority in the Senate and House. Democratic Leader Lyndon Johnson was noncommittal. One key reason: the great weight Johnson places on the opinions of his fellow Texan...