Word: bosse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...immediate task facing the Ministers is to explore Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev's call for NATO to "taste the wine" of Russian intentions on mutual force reductions in Central Europe-or, as NATO prefers to call it, Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions.* Two weeks ago, President Nixon and the Soviets agreed on a framework for proceeding with Strategic Arms Limitation Talks covering both defensive and offensive weapons. Last week, SALT negotiators wound up their fourth round of talks in Vienna (they will reconvene in Helsinki in July) on what one U.S. observer called "a substantially positive note...
Happily for Nixon, Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev inadvertently came to the rescue of the Administration. He made a speech calling for serious discussion of mutual reduction of forces in Europe. Then he hit the point even harder when Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau went to Moscow last week to sign a pact of mutual cooperation with the Soviets. Both Brezhnev and Kosygin suggested to Trudeau that they wanted to pare their swollen defense budget and put the money into sorely needed housing. Thus they helped kill whatever chance the Mansfield amendment may once have had. It was handily defeated...
...issue of race was never far from the surface, and it was clearly reflected in the voting patterns. Rizzo captured 49% of the vote, amassing up to 80% majorities in white working-class and middle-class areas. Green, 32, son and namesake of the longtime Philadelphia political boss who died in 1963, polled only 35%, despite glittering endorsements from Senators John Tunney and Edward Kennedy and the tardy backing of Pennsylvania Governor Milton J. Shapp. Green ran most strongly in black wards and well-to-do Chestnut Hill...
...their hopes in young liberals who spoke of taking dramatic steps to end "bossism" and solve urban problems. It is interesting that Philadelphia in 1965 elected District Attorney Arlen Specter, who described himself as a "Kennedy Democrat" running on the Republican ticket. Specter ran a Lindsay-esque anti-boss campaign while the machine sent letters to Republican office-holders accusing Specter of being an "ultra-liberal...
...Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago, Royko...