Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that revealing exchange, the chief of the Justice Department's criminal division inadvertently conceded the North Carolina Democrat's point last week...
...Rodino committee clearly was on the defensive for the first time-even in Democratic circles. "The committee has taken too damn long," complained one congressional Democratic leader last week. "Timing is all important. They lost everybody's attention, and the President meanwhile went away on his mission of peace, glorifying himself." Said another Democrat with a hyperbolic despair not yet warranted by events: "They've about blown it. By the leaks, they've almost irreparably damaged the investigation." More realistically, another Democratic leader told Rodino: "Peter, the honeymoon is over...
Rodino, 65, attempted in procedural disputes to be more the committee's chairman than its ranking Democrat. Thus he was long able to maintain a high degree of bipartisanship. In this situation, party leadership on a day-to-day basis fell to the senior Democrat, Harold Donohue of Massachusetts. But he is 73 and feeling his age. By default, Jack Brooks of Texas, 51, became a central figure on the Democratic side...
...liberation movements say that self-determination is a fact after ten to 13 years of fighting." To an extent, Soares agrees with them. "Without that [popular] support, it would have been impossible to fight the war." But he does not accept all of their arguments. "I'm a democrat and a realist. There is no political organization anywhere that absolutely represents a population." In any referendum, he says, "we are prepared to accept control and inspection by an international organization like the United Nations...
...Last year President Nixon called the misuse of land "perhaps the most pressing environmental issue before the nation" and urged Congress to do something about it. The Senate already had passed a bill to encourage states to plan exactly where land-development projects should or should not go. Arizona Democrat Morris Udall introduced a similar bill in the House. But last week, in a 211-to-204 procedural vote, the House refused even to debate the subject, virtually ending any chance of land-use legislation this year...