Word: governability
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...city he has tried to govern for six years would haunt him. "If he can't run New York City," his opponents will repeat almost in chorus, "how does he expect to run the country?" It is almost impossible to say how much another mayor could have forestalled New York's deterioration, but the city, with its public-employee strikes, housing crises, power blackouts, accelerating crime and financial deficits, will be a heavy club in his enemies' hands...
...Lindsay is the only politician who can make points out of chaos. He is the acknowledged leader of the nation's mayors in their fight for greater federal revenues to rescue the decaying cities. Lindsay says he plans to refute critics now by demonstrating that he can indeed govern New York City; he means also to use its problems as proof of a larger national crisis instead of evidence of his own incompetence...
Have to Take It. Perhaps the most convincing evidence of all that Mc- Govern is not just operating a holding action for Kennedy is the determined and energetic way in which he is campaigning. He is traveling widely, speaking up readily on issues. He has taken to wearing longer hair, buckled shoes, flowered ties and modish suits to appeal to a younger following. Vows McGovern: "If Senator Kennedy or anyone else gets that nomination, they are going to have to take it away from me. I'm not yielding to anyone." Iowa Senator Harold Hughes, who recently withdrew from...
...paradox and tragedy of Viet Nam, argues Gelb, was that "most of our leaders and their critics did see that Viet Nam was a quagmire, but did not see that the real stakes?who shall govern Viet Nam?were not negotiable. What were legitimate compromises from Washington's point of view were matters of life and death to the Vietnamese." How can this kind of thinking be changed? Gelb contends that a President must demand much more of his security advisers; they must probe more deeply into what really is in the national interest. The President must also take...
Nineteen months had passed without a single fatal crash of a scheduled airliner in the U.S., a safety record unprecedented in commercial aviation. But last week, in the inexplicable pattern that seems to govern such disasters, two airliners went down, one on each coast, killing a total of 78 persons. Twenty-eight of them died when an Allegheny Airlines twin jet crashed in a swamp near Connecticut's Tweed-New Haven Airport. Another 50 were killed in the collision of a Hughes Air West DC-9 and a Navy F-4 Phantom jet over California's San Gabriel...