Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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RICHARD ("Tricky") NIXON, veteran: Banned from season play as a result of his placing bugs and other objects in Democrat's playing equipment; was found out when he taped himself to improve his fielding average; explained away unpopularity by citing the support of a 'silent majority', presumably TV fans...
...cartoon in Bologna's daily Resto del Carlino recently portrayed Christian Democrat Premier Aldo Moro and Communist Party Leader Enrico Berlinguer as a cozy couple on the dance floor, while Socialist Party Chief Francesco de Martino stood alone growling "Hey, I thought this was supposed to be my dance." Italian politics being what it is, the caricature contained more truth than humor. Making good on a long-hinted threat, the Socialist Party last week withdrew its parliamentary support for Moro's fragile coalition government, thereby forcing the Cabinet to resign. With Italy still deep in its worst postwar...
Died. William A. Blakley, 77, conservative Texas Democrat who twice filled an unexpired term in the U.S. Senate; in Dallas. Sometimes called "Cowboy Bill" for his early ranch-hand days in Oklahoma, later "Dollar Bill" in recognition of his status as a self-made centimillionaire who with his wife gave $100 million to a foundation that he helped to create, Blakley was first appointed to the Senate for eleven weeks in 1957. He left saying, "I shall go back to my boots and saddle and ride toward the Western sunset," but came galloping back in 1961 for another six months...
...political critic, not a philosopher, and his sharpest opinions conern present-day events. He originally came to Washington as a counsel to the Republican Policy Committee of the Senate, from the University of Toronto, where he taught political philosophy. Though he says he has never voted for a Democrat, he no longer regards himself as a Republican. "Watergate largely cured me", he says. "I think the party disgraced itself. The general line is that Watergate wasn't a party matter; it was a Nixon matter. It was a party matter: it was a party test, and the party failed...
Around the fireplaces of Georgetown and out in Maryland and Virginia, the intriguing questions for the presidential year were why Jerry Ford, so amiable and so much like other Americans, was in such low esteem and how Democrat Jimmy Carter, the former Governor of Georgia, had emerged from obscurity to win a place as a serious contender for the nomination of his party...