Word: partisanship
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...participants in the project emphasize that their research is done without interference from the Reagan or Anderson staffs. Although "there obviously ought to be some communication between the scholars and the professionals they are assisting," Moore says that as in 1968 and 1976, when the IOP sponsored similar studies, partisanship is taboo...
Third, I am dismayed by the sort of naivete or ideological partisanship which determines "guilt" of an international development adviser by the regime with which he "associates." In my career in the Agency for International Development (AID), I have worked with such motley regimes as those of Torrijos in Panama, Velasco in Peru, Banzer in Bolivia, Burnham in Guyana and Somoza in Nicaragua. Like most Third World countries, none of them were models of participative democracy. However, they were all serious about development; and in each of them there were people with whom I and our AID mission could work...
Dana M. Stein '80, a member of the executive committee, said yesterday that the matter would be resolved by the club's executive committee. "It was an oversight. We can detach ourselves from any partisanship and come up with something fair," Stein said yesterday...
...alternative foreign policy. Commented State Department Spokesman Hodding Carter III: "The purpose of the opposition is to oppose, and such resolutions I don't find particularly surprising nor do I think they are particularly edifying" (see ESSAY). Added a high Administration official: "It is pure boiler plate ... Its partisanship is transparent and it doesn't begin to tell us what we ought to be doing instead." If such an attempt had been made, presumably the unanimity among Republicans as diverse as Clifford Case and Barry Goldwater would instantly have dissolved...
Moose denies that the U.S. is leaning toward the Patriotic Front. "That's a fundamental misinterpretation of our policy. We have no special brief for the Patriotic Front. Our concern for an 'all-inclusive' process should not be misinterpreted as partisanship. Our objective is to secure the earliest genuine transfer of power in a manner that allows a free expression of political will and an outcome that, insofar as possible, will assure the rights of all the Zimbabwe people." Washington thus shares the view of the front-line leaders and the Patriotic Front that Smith...