Word: leaderlessness
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Reagan also argues that Carter's anti-Washington appeal will work against Ford, but not against him. He points to sizable Democratic cross-over votes that enabled him to blank Ford in the Texas primary, and to his support elsewhere by the now leaderless Wallace following. By carrying California and Texas, in both of whose primaries he swamped Ford, and picking off some Southern states he has demonstrated that no other Republican could wrest from Carter, Reagan insists the Republicans would have a better chance to win with him as the candidate...
Entitled "The Moral Factor," Rand's speech described the national presidential campaign as "the tragedy of an intellectually leaderless people...
...vetoed 16 bills, many on the grounds that they would contribute to inflation, which he saw as the nation's main domestic problem. In contrast, Congress saw the recession-and its attendant unemployment-as the top problem and sought to get money flowing through the economy. Yet the leaderless Democrats were able to override only three vetoes, all on politically popular issues: school lunches, education and health care...
...increasing sense of futility as it has witnessed the coalition - which technically was supposed to divide power equally between the two factions - work almost solely to the advantage of the Pathet Lao. Ailing Prince Souvanna Phouma, the 73-year-old neutralist Premier, has consistently pressured the demoralized and leaderless rightists into accepting the demands of the Pathet Lao Cabinet members. Last summer, for example, the rightist-dominated National Assembly was suspended and later formally dissolved because some of its members had called for the withdrawal of North Vietnamese troops from Laos...
...around the capital, including a murderous artillery assault against the airbase at Bien Hoa. Poised on the outskirts of the city, the Communist troops faced virtually no resistance. Most of the top ARVN military leaders had already fled or were making plans to do so; the regular troops were leaderless, demoralized and overpowered...