Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...overweight white-faced Irishman, and he is so rosy about the prospects of his candidate that in conversations he assumes a fatherly manner, releasing bits of information between pitches of the World Series game on television. In any other year, you would take O'Donnell for a Democrat...
...even funny. One saboteur recently turned loose a box of live cockroaches in Republican headquarters at Manhattan's Roosevelt Hotel. Lyndon Johnson aides reportedly poured itching powder down the backs of demonstrators carrying anti-L.B.J. signs at his rallies-forcing them to drop their boards and scratch. Democrat Leo Marshall, seeking a seat on Pennsylvania's New Castle County Council in 1966, was the victim of someone who sent a flatbed truck carrying a black band and black semi-nude go-go girls into a conservative white ethnic neighborhood, noisily urging his election. He lost...
...honesty, his support of civil rights and his concern for the poorer classes. Beulah Stepp, an Independent who works with retarded children in Detroit, says McGovern "isn't being radical: he's being an honest politician, which is hard to find these days." Joseph Turner, a Democratic sewing-machine repairman from Roselle, N.J., believes McGovern is more likely to look out for the working classes and enforce the law of the land on matters like school integration. Charles Sage, a Clifton, N.J., scientist and a Democrat, says McGovern "has the potential of being a really great President because...
...same time, Allende was clearly on the political defensive. He offered to submit the truckers' demands to mediation and they refused. Then he invited the opposition Christian Democrat leaders to meet with him to discuss ways of ending the strike, only to be rebuffed again. Last week Santiago bus owners threatened to strike and Allende hastened to meet their demands with only minor reservations. He agreed to draft a law guaranteeing that bus transport will remain in the private sector, return three nationalized bus companies to their owners, and drop lawsuits against transport leaders brought during the strikes...
...consider the following: Break the ideological hegemony of the ruling class. Bring the struggle home to the Democratic Party. Become a Revolutionary Democrat dedicated to replacing corporation feudalism with concrete Blueprints for a post-corporate America. G. William Domhoff University of California