Word: leaderlessness
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Throughout the evening, the group was leaderless and disorganized-so much so that at one point it lost its way and almost missed Shannon Hall...
...LEADERLESS, divided and deeply in L debt, the Democratic Party last week lost one of its last links to any semblance of organization. Its national chairman, Oklahoma Senator Fred Harris, announced that hs was resigning effective March 5 and the party is now seeking a successor. Although many Democrats insisted that Harris accept some of the blame for his party's doldrums, a Washington headquarters official put the resignation in what seemed to be the right perspective. "Fred was not forced out," he said...
...them, like Manson, also found other advantages to being a hippie. The true gentle folk were relatively defenseless. Leaderless, they responded readily to strong leaders. But how could children who had dropped out for the sake of kindness and sharing, love and beauty, be enjoined to kill? Yablonsky thinks that the answer may lie in the fact that so many hippies are actually "lonely, alienated people." He says: "They have had so few love models that even when they act as if they love, they can be totally devoid of true compassion. That is the reason why they can kill...
...congressional plaudits on issues other than the war when he returned from Midway. Instead, he had to turn at once to Capitol Hill, where a series of smoldering debates were breaking into the open. Democratic liberals were arrayed in opposition to his order of national priorities. Republicans felt leaderless, and the Administration itself had allowed its lines of communication with the Hill to fall into disrepair. Items...
Balaguer faces most of his opposition on the left, which is fractured almost to the point of incomprehensibility by at least eleven squabbling factions that range from Maoist to moderate social democrats. Moreover, the left is virtually as leaderless as it is splintered. The left's old hero, Juan Bosch, whom Balaguer defeated for the presidency in 1966, remains in voluntary exile in Spain. Similarly, another potential leader, Francisco Caamaño Deó, 37, who was the military commander of the anti-establishment "Constitutionalists" during the 1965 civil war, is reportedly holed up in Cuba or The Netherlands...