Word: loyalities
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...situation was tolerable only so long as it was misunderstood. To acknowledge the impossibility of a merely political democracy in Vietnam was unthinkable for Americans loyal to the rhetoric of the New Frontier. It would mean facing a choice, unthinkable to them, between economic democracy and no democracy at all, between a hopefully temporary dictatorship of the peasants and the small working class and a hopefully permanent dictatorship of the Army and the small upper bourgeoisie. Inevitably, therefore, American politicians blamed the failure of democracy in Vietnam not on the conditions that made their definition of democracy inadequate...
...might better be viewed as the last act of the struggle against America's war on Indochina. Nixon's half-hearted attempts to justify his activities are based on the exigencies of national security, by which he apparently means suppression of radical and liberal opposition to the war. When loyal CREEPs want to demonstrate that Nixon's activities were responses to illegal activities by his opponents, they point to Daniel Ellsberg and the Vietnam Veterans Against the War. Among the first fruits of Nixon's troubles were Congressional demands for an end to the bombing of Cambodia. Dramatically, it would...
Making "revolutionaries" members of the Democratic Party merely creates a more radical version of New York's New Democratic Coalition, a disorganized and slightly comical caucus of liberal Democrats. As another loyal faction in the Democratic organization, Domhoff's radicals are only another interest group calling for concessions. They bear partial responsibility for party decisions, and are open to co-optation by party liberals. It was a variation on Domhoff's brand of party loyalty that made possible the Watergate break-in and coverup. Dedication to any organization whose basic aim is the expansion of its own power can only...
...nearby Las Condes, President Salvador Allende Gossens reacted calmly to news of the attempted coup. In the first of four nationwide radio and television addresses during the day, he declared that "the majority of the army troops support the government" and asked that his supporters remain "serene" while loyal military forces cleaned up the situation. That they did: about 12:30 p.m., the leaders of the rebellious army unit had surrendered, and the first coup attempted against the Western Hemisphere's only elected Marxist leader was over...
...Hugh Scott (R-Pa.). Scott, the Senate minority leader, has backed every Nixon scheme that has come down the turnpike. He has been especially vocal about Vietnam policy. He may just be a loyal careerist, but that defense did not help Adolf Eichmann...