Word: democratization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...force," a U.S. official points out, "but she may have to, or else lose all her bona fides." Stone-Age Solution. Despite these drawbacks, the Administration has been under intense pressure to bomb the Hanoi-Haiphong complex. Echoing the Joint Chiefs, politicians of both parties -notably Georgia Democrat Richard Russell, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and his opposite number in the House, South Carolina Democrat L. Mendel Rivers-have be gun to protest that privileged targets hamper the war effort. Richard Nixon called for stepped-up bombing of the North to prevent the U.S. from becoming "bogged down...
...state that counts tourism as its No. 1 business, it seemed only good politics when Florida's popular Governor Haydon Burns proposed a $300 million road-widening program last spring. Democrat Burns, 53, a former mayor of Jacksonville whose snappy dress and smooth talk have earned him the nickname "Slick," campaigned all over the state for the issue, acknowledging that his political prestige was at stake. Last month, in the wake of a Tampa Tribune report that the Gov ernor had requested $250,000 from contractors to ballyhoo the road pro gram, Florida's voters rejected the bond...
While New York City's Mayor-elect John Lindsay, 44, was announcing his appointment of a 49-year-old Democrat, Robert Lowery, to become the city's first Negro fire commissioner at $30,000 a year, the board of elections was offered a tentative tally on what it had cost the Lindsay people to be able to hand out such jobs-roughly $2,539,977 in campaign expenses, v. $2,451,919 in contributions. That left Lindsay's organization with more than $88,000 in bills still to pay. Just the day before, the mayor-elect...
...daughter turned revolutionary at age 19, confidante to Lenin and First Secretary of the Third Communist International, who broke with Communism in 1921, exposing her former heroes (My Life as a Rebel, Impressions of Lenin), but remained an unshaken believer in socialism, thereafter lending her support to Italian Social-Democrat Giuseppe Saragat and the U.S.'s Norman Thomas; of an intestinal hemorrhage; in Rome...
...Louisiana's Democratic Senator Russell Long has been in the U.S. Senate for 17 years, and seems assured of remaining there as long as he wants the job. As Democratic whip, he is Mike Mansfield's heir apparent to the Senate's majority leadership. In addition, with the resignation of Virginia Democrat Harry Byrd (TIME, Nov. 19), Long, the ranking Democrat on Byrd's powerful Senate Finance Committee, will automatically become committee chairman when Congress reconvenes in January. Seldom in Senate history has one man held two such pivotal posts, and there were hints last week...