Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strong is the sentiment for tax revision that the House would not consider the extension bill until President Nixon promised to send up a reform program later this year. Even with Nixon's pledge, the margin was an almost invisible five votes. The Democratic leadership in the Senate was less trusting. Reform, the leaders reasoned, means one thing to them, another to a President who during the campaign favored retention of the oil-depletion allowance-one of the chief targets of the reformers. Their other goals include a minimum income tax to eliminate the anomaly of some millionaires...
...thus about as involved as Dick and Jane. Enter Russell Long, chairman of the Finance Committee and junior Senator from Louisiana, some of whose campaign contributors look upon a cut in the oil-depletion allowance as something akin to matricide. With scarcely a sideways glance at the Democratic leadership, which wanted delay, Long bolted party ties and brought the surtax, minus reform, to a committee vote. With two Democrats defecting, it was approved 9 to 8. Some saw a trace of hubris in Long's defiance of his party's leadership. Since his rejection as assistant majority leader...
...younger practitioners regard as archaic the association's attitude toward public health. Membership (currently 217,000) has declined in proportion to the total number of doctors, although the 100,000 nonmember physicians thereby forgo low-cost insurance plans and valuable research material. Many resent A.M.A.'s geriatric leadership: the average age in the ruling House of Delegates is 62. That body in turn controls the activities of AMPAC (American Medical Political Action Committee). Last year AMPAC doled out an estimated $2.6 million in political contributions to candidates who mirrored its conservative views...
...elections, for example, the party lost control of four key states-Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal and the Punjab. In last February's midterm elections in those states, Congress failed to regain its old supremacy. Last week the party developed new troubles: an open power struggle in the leadership...
...proceeded to carry out her proposals herself. At week's end India's 14 largest private banks were nationalized. Stunned by the speed and force of Indira's ambush, the Syndicate made no immediate response. The party bosses may decide not to challenge her on the leadership issue since the party has already twice rejected the austere and inflexible Desai in Indira's favor because he has little voter appeal. But in the event they do, the outcome of a no-confidence motion against Indira might well tear Congress apart. By any odds, the party seemed...