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Even if he can command a loyal and unified Democratic Party in California, there is some question that Lyndon Johnson will be able to carry the nation's most populous state next year. As it is, fractious California Democrats are so energetically redrawing and quartering the party that there is considerable doubt that they will even send a delegation to the 1968 Democratic Convention pledged to Johnson's renomination...
...since last month, the show makes only passing reference to the Red Guards. Even so, it is less outdated than validated by China's present upheaval. The thrust of Roots of Madness is, baldly, that 100 years of colonial humiliation and continuous civil blood shed left a fractious population unifiable only by tyranny and by a paranoiac "primitive hatred of the foreign devil...
That, at least, was the Administration's script. Conveniently omitted was the fact that it was the President him self who had been largely responsible for paralyzing the negotiations for most of that time. And, as it turned out, the union's notoriously fractious membership flatly rejected the terms of the agreement so effusively hailed by Lyndon Johnson...
Playing David. He could not have picked a better year to play David. The late Representative William Green's once-smooth Philadelphia organization had turned increasingly fractious under Democratic City Chairman Francis Smith. It broke down when it backed State Senator Robert Casey, 34, a Scranton attorney, for the gubernatorial nomination. Shapp, guided by Joseph Napolitan, a J.F.K. pollster in 1960, mercilessly-derided Casey and exalted his own independence by calling himself "the man against the machine...
...last week under the democratic dictatorship of Marshal (retired) Humberto Castello Branco, 65, leader of the 1964 military revolution which aimed to clean up Brazilian politics once and for all. In Brazilian terms, the predicament was relatively simple. Castello Branco had annulled the nation's 13 fractious political parties, ordered them to join hands to form two new ones: a government party called Arena (for National Renovation Alliance) and a loyal opposition party called Modebras (for Brazilian Democratic Movement...