Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even if Carter can be stopped, the cost to the party might be prohibitive. Says Douglas Eraser, a vice president of the U.A.W. who has been backing Udall: "If Carter hits 1,000 delegates, the Democratic Convention can't give the nomination to someone who didn't even contest in the primaries. The people have been led to believe that they have been having a hand in picking the nominee. If they are told that all that went on didn't mean anything, the people just won't swallow that." Indeed, most of the South, resentful...
Fumble or Fortify? Mansfield's settlement quickly generated Senate support. The new committee will be composed of eight Democrats and seven Republicans. Members would be limited to eight-year terms to prevent the growth of cozy relationships between the watchers and the watched. Among those legislators picked at week's end were Democratic liberals Birch Bayh, Adlai Stevenson, Gary Hart and Joseph Biden, and Republicans Clifford Case, Howard Baker, Mark Hatfield, Strom Thurmond and Goldwater. Though Church might be a natural candidate for chairmanship of the new committee, he ruled himself out. The expected choice is Democrat Daniel...
...Italy. Using a combination of Christian moral ideals and political realism, the party shepherded the country through a long period of tricky and often wrenching social change, while managing to maintain social peace. Says Rome University Sociologist Franco Ferrarotti, a former "independent left" Deputy: "If I were a Christian Democrat, I would point out the undeniable facts of recent history-'We took in our arms a country with homes destroyed, with streets in the air, with unemployment between 6 million and 7 million -the worst in Europe, and perhaps in the world. Then, in less than 20 years, even...
Reversing roles, the party that likes to think of itself as the more orderly and dignified was now in chaos. Would the battered Gerald Ford and the newly confident Reagan cut each other up so badly that Democrat Carter could breeze to the presidency in November? Sensing that possibility, would Republicans eventually reject both men and nominate somebody else, a healer and more likely winner, in Kansas City in July...
Dean Sayre is sure that if Americans find a man of the proper moral dimensions, it will hardly matter whether he is liberal or conservative, Republican or Democrat. "What will matter," he says, "is the passionate care that he brings to the White House...