Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Castro Leaflets. Last week a House subcommittee led by California Democrat Don Edwards, a former FBI agent, held its first public hearing on the FBI's mishandling of the Oswald note but cleared up none of its members' suspicions. They wanted to know why the FBI had not only failed to put Oswald under surveillance but destroyed the note about two hours after Nightclub Owner Jack Ruby shot and killed Oswald...
...stranger to controversy. Member of a Georgia textile family whose fortune has been estimated at $40 million, he holds a commission from West Point, served three years in Korea and is a former regent of the University of Georgia. He was originally a states' rights Democrat. But he bolted the party to support Barry Goldwater in 1964, and was elected to Congress as a Republican. In the House he fought against the Voting Rights Act of 1965, Medicare and most other Great Society programs...
...Governor and lost to Democrat Lester Maddox. Two years later, as chairman of Richard Nixon's campaign in the South, Callaway suggested that George Wallace join forces with Nixon, implying that their views were similar. The mistake so angered Nixon strategists that Callaway was barred from any Administration job until 1973, when he became Army Secretary and distinguished himself by successfully organizing the volunteer army...
...days India is engrossed in a frenzied campaign to encourage discipline, punctuality, cleanliness, courtesy. Placards appear everywhere, some of whose messages of inspiration are attributed to Mrs. Gandhi but most not. On a street corner in New Delhi: ECONOMIC OFFENSES BRING STERN PUNISHMENT. Another, quoting Mohandas Gandhi: A BORN DEMOCRAT IS A BORN DISCIPLINARIAN...
Bayh, who is the ninth Democrat to enter the race for the nomination, said he is running for the Presidency "to prove to those who have lost confidence that government can control those forces that often appear more powerful than government itself...