Word: partisan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...apparent. However distant and as yet only indirectly involving the U.S., the war between Israel and its Arab neighbors could hold greater peril for Americans 14 than The School for Scandal drama unreeling in Washington. Public reaction to the fighting was more solemn and subdued-and notably less partisan-than during the quick Israeli triumph of 1967, when even the most disinterested observer had to admire that small country's masterful military effort. This time fear and reluctance about involvement were far stronger. The so-far inconclusive struggle upset and troubled Israel's many American supporters, while Arab...
...ground for President Nixon. He has stood even more unswervingly behind his party leaders than Senate Minority Leader Hugh Scott (R-Penn.). Since 1968, this has meant determined support for the war in Indochina, a fact warmly cited by President Nixon in his televised address last Friday. His routinely partisan politics--which may make him a weak candidate in any election outside his stronghold in Grand Rapids--have been all but ignored in the celebrations that have followed the Nixon speech...
...avoid multiple candidacies in the general election, the two top votegetters in Cleveland's non-partisan primary automatically go on to face one another in the general election, even if one of them receives more than 50% of the primary vote...
...deputy campaign manager for George McGovern in 1972, now a first-year Law student, yesterday accused the Senate Watergate Committee of a partisan political attempt to smear the McGovern campaign...
...political parties have only been recessed. The government has no partisan politics because if we were to have parties right away, we would again fall into contamination. But our doors will remain open to politicians who have recognized abilities. The only condition is that these men do not mix their work with politics...