Word: partisanship
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...suddenly declared that any priests who do not forsake "public positions" immediately "will be considered in open rebellion and disobedience of the ultimate ecclesiastical authority." Vatican Spokesman Romeo Panciroli claimed that Rome played no part in the crackdown. In fact, John Paul has taken a firm line against priestly partisanship in the Nicaraguan test case...
...elimination of the Marxism unit has provoked a notable amount of dismay from students and tutors alike. It is cited as the most popular topic on the list, and interest in it this year crossed lines of political partisanship. One tutor reports. "One of my most Reaganite students found the section on alienation particularly absorbing." Tutors also say that the opportunities for reading Marx in the original are fairly rare and that this leads to many misinterpretations of his writings in subsequent work...
Jerry Falwell, who professes to be committed to U.S. pluralism, thinks the PAW crusade is mere partisanship. "Norman Lear sees a future threat to what he is doing, to the pornographic television he produces like Mary Hartman and Maude. He used Archie Bunker and Edith for years to demean women, got rich doing it, then gave a big donation to the women's movement. He's just playing games again, and using some liberal theologians for his own devices...
Another of Vander Jagt's targets, Oregon's Al Ullman, 66, professes to be less concerned about his own fate in November than about what the new partisanship may do to the House. Says Ullman: "You get a little wary about personal relationships when people go for the jugular...
...backing Jimmy Carter in 80% of his Senate votes. Says she: "He votes one way and talks another when he is back here. He is a liberal, McGovernite carpetbagger." Hart retorts that Buchanan's charges reflect her narrow viewpoint and insists that his campaign will rise above partisanship. Says he: "I will not ignore her. We will interact and debate, but I am going to run a campaign for the 1980s. What is her plan for the environment? For national defense? For the economy? It took me a year or so to formulate my ideas...