Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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MUCH OF THIS BOOK'S criticism is political, but Kozol has no distinct political or theoretical position. He leans to the left, but never identifies his ideological beliefs: it is impossible to tell whether deep down inside, he is a closet social democrat, Maoist, or, what seems to fit best with his style of wholesale criticism, anarchist. It is difficult to discern the underlying basis of Kozol's critique--or to discover if he has one at all--for he fails to offer solutions to the problems he describes in such detail. In the closing paragraphs of the book, Kozol...
Sometimes Schlesinger did not speak out publicly but, according to some Ford advisers, conveyed his message through his two main supporters in the Senate, Washington Democrat Henry Jackson and New York Republican James Buckley. Says a Buckley aide: "Kissinger's office was keeping the book on Schlesinger. There was a minor industry in the State Department of putting the blocks to him." The suspicions were mutual. Early this year Kissinger told Nelson Rockefeller he was convinced that Schlesinger was out to get his job as Secretary of State. Kissinger and Schlesinger began finding reasons to skip their once-a-week...
...congressional record and general political disposition make him likely to be the best friend big business has had in the White House in a long time. Ronald Reagan might be even better, but while Reagan could conceivably win the Republican nomination, as after all did Goldwater, nearly any Democrat could beat him in November. And since these men, and the corporate interests they represent, whether in defense contracting, oil or steel, aren't going to be able to do much better than Ford anyway, their primary goal is to keep him in the running. And, at least initially, that means...
...CLEVELAND: Incumbent Mayor Ralph Perk, a white Republican running against Arnold Pinkney, a black Democrat, won a third term with the help of a large turnout from the city's predominantly white West Side...
Although campaign staff for Mayor Kevin H. White had claimed victory hours earlier, Timilty, a 37-year-old Democrat, waited until shortly after 11 p.m. to admit his loss to supporters jammed into the Statler-Hilton's Bay State Room...