Word: leader
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Picking Up the Pieces. The most disaffected of the McCarthyites cast themselves in the role of both punisher and redeemer. U.C.L.A. Philosophy Professor Donald Kalish, a leader of Los Angeles' Peace Action Council, insists that a Humphrey defeat "must be resounding" so that Democrats will know better next time. Anne Marcus, executive director of Robert (The Man from U.N.C.L.E.) Vaughn's Dissenting Democrats, says more harshly that the party "should be destroyed." In their dream, these apostles of apocalypse see themselves picking up the pieces after the disaster and building a new party...
...Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, who favors Fortas and opposes the filibuster, despairs of the outcome. He estimates that 50 Senators will vote against shutting off debate, leaving far fewer than the two-thirds needed for cloture. After two failures on a cloture vote, Majority Leader Mike Mansfield is likely to withdraw the nomination, and the court will open its new session next month with Warren back on the bench...
...lesson of Czechoslovakia is that the Soviet leaders do not operate from ideology or stated principles unless it serves their political purpose to do so. What was involved in Czechoslovakia was an expression of Russian nationalism and military power. Feeling endangered by a political threat and an unsafe border, the Soviets elected to violate their own principle of nonintervention. They thus prejudiced their position as world leader of Communism in order to secure the territorial integrity of what they must consider their European empire. Peter the Great would have done the same...
Kuznetsov also seemed to be doing what Chervonenko had dismally failed to do: lining up an alternative leader to Dubcek. On a one-day flying visit, Kuznetsov went to the Slovak capital of Bratislava for a chat with Gustav Husak, the Slovak party secretary whose recent public criticism of Dubcek's handling of Czechoslovakia's short-lived reform program won favorable mention in the Soviet press. Kuznetsov's visit encouraged speculation in Czechoslovakia that the Soviets hoped ultimately to replace Dubcek with Husak when the switch could be made without needlessly inflaming the country's turbulent...
After downing five cognacs during a flight from Stuttgart to Hannover last March, Adolf ("Bubi") von Thadden, 47, leader of West Germany's radical rightist National Democratic Party, cruised out of the airport and crunched his Mercedes 200D into a construction barricade. That boozy little episode has cost him a one-month suspended sentence; he had his license lifted for three months and had to fork over $556.25 in fines and $750 in repairs. But Bubi still has his wheels: he has hired a chauffeur to drive him around...