Word: helpfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Everywhere, Carter turned the trip into a revivalist gathering down by the riverside. The standard line, which never failed to win roars of approval: "How many of you believe we live in the greatest nation on earth? . . . If you will help me, we can make the greatest nation on earth even greater...
With little action on the right, Brown has been cozying up to the left. He believes the Haydens can help him put together a national constituency based on opposition to nuclear power, all-out support of solar energy, attacks on big corporations, a noninterventionist foreign policy and a lingering nostalgia for the impassioned politics and communal undertakings of the 1960s. The Governor has even adopted much of the Haydens' rhetoric, including their favorite image for describing the energy crisis: "The Viet Nam of the 1980s...
Whether that will help or hinder their candidate is another question. The Haydens' political philosophy seems to run counter to the conservative trend in America. There may be new interest in the Viet Nam War, but it is highly questionable that evoking the Haydens' approach to the conflict is a way to make political capital. Indeed, there is the very real possibility that stirring memories of the war may strengthen the revisionist beliefs of those Americans who feel that the conflict need not have been lost after...
...Singh in July in order to force the resignation of Desai, she then deserted Charan Singh to force his resignation less than a month later. Ram, who has been in every Cabinet since independence, stood by Mrs. Gandhi throughout the Emergency, but deserted her at the last moment to help the Janata Party win the 1977 election. Last week she took her revenge by denying her old colleague the support that would have made him Prime Minister. It was ruthless politics, but as her aunt Mrs. Vijayalakshmi Pandit once observed of her niece in office, "She was the only...
...1970s, but it is now in need of spare parts for its American equipment, as well as ammunition, new helicopters and artillery. At the time of their victory last February, the ayatullahs rejected all American influence. Now, they evidently feel the need of some U.S. military help to survive...