Word: democratized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Intraparty Clawing. Some hopefuls figure that opposition to the war may nonetheless prove the open-sesame to office-despite powerful evidence to the contrary in Oregon last month, where Democrat Robert Duncan won a hand some victory in the senatorial primary by strongly supporting the Administration on Viet Nam. Most of the antiwar candidates, however, are underdogs, who have taken heart from the 7% decline (to 47%) since April in nationwide approval of Lyndon Johnson's execution...
Domestic politics in Finland has for years been based on two cardinal considerations: 1) that no Communists enter the Cabinet, and 2) that no Social Democrats become Premiers. The policies were well founded. In 1948, the last time that Communists were in the Cabinet, they tried to turn Finland into a Soviet satellite. As for the Social Democrats, the Russians developed a special loathing for them in the mid-50s and, as next-door neighbors, were able to bully the Finns into keeping them out of power. But last week, as a new four-party coalition government formally took office...
...Washington after those polls." The Congressmen listened to Rusk's assurances that South Viet Nam's political crisis was easing, but few were wholly convinced. "We may have to make a decision damned soon about whether to pull out of the war," growled South Carolina Democrat L. Mendel Rivers. "The President has got to level with the American people," said House G.O.P. Leader Gerald Ford. "We don't need vindictiveness-against Fulbright or the Republicans. What we need is enlightenment...
...elder of Wichita's First Presbyterian Church, has served on major Presbyterian committees since 1958. Thompson has a long record of community involvement in Wichita. He is chairman of the Civic Music Association, and helped to organize a local political reform movement (he is a registered Democrat...
...Oregon race is hardly typical. In most Senate contests this year, a Democrat who supports Administration policy, perhaps with a few reservations, will be opposed by a Republican who takes either a similar or a harder line. In most cases, therefore, only those who favor escalation of the war will have an opportunity to make their views Tok. A few Senate seats may change hands, but Democrats are likely to retain the 68 seats they have held for the past two years...