Word: oppositionism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With few exceptions, multi-party forms of democracy left behind by the departing colonial powers have vanished from Africa. Reason: the tribal tradition of decision by consensus leaves no room for a "loyal opposition." To the African mind, a political group is either for the government or against it, and...
Boldface Type. Symbols of unity and progress napped like so many ensigns at fleet review. Barry Goldwater sounded like a man from the N.A.A.C.P. New York's John Lindsay agreed to second Agnew's nomination rather than serve as the rallying point for opposition to it. The platform, the keynote...
Pinched Budget. Head Start administrators see their problem in the fact that under HEW the individual states would control the program and possibly curtail its scope. Traditional support for state control is one reason for the longstanding Republican opposition to OEO. When Head Start proved to be not only a...
Circus Side. NBC this year took a hard-news approach. The only real news, the network obviously decided, was the shifting of votes between Front Runner Nixon and his opposition. But since there was very little "erosion," as possible vote shifts were invariably called, NBC viewers had to watch two...
ABC, historically No. 3 in news budget and ratings, tried the most novel approach. Forsaking gavel-to-gavel coverage, it opted for a nightly 90-minute wrap-up of the day's proceedings. While the opposition networks were carrying the early hours of the convention, ABC viewers saw Rat...