Word: partisanship
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Jordan's ambassador to the United Nations said yesterday that peace efforts in the Middle East are "about to reach a standstill" because of Israeli intransigence and American partisanship of Israel...
...problem in the weeks ahead will be to keep partisanship from getting out of hand. So far, there has been only one major clash. That occurred last month in the northwestern city of Oporto when thousands of leftists besieged a congress of the conservative Center Social Democratic Party and paratroopers had to be called in. The Communists are the party most likely to run into campaigning difficulties. They have no problems in areas south of the Tagus River, where the people are generally anticlerical. Things are different in northern Portugal, a closed, quasi-medieval society, where the Roman Catholic Church...
...week before the election, the polls showed Leahy trailing his Republican opponent, Congressman Richard Mallary, by as much as 13%. But the prematurely gray Leahy a state's attorney for Chittenden County, kept plugging at a theme with peculiar appeal to Vermonters: there was no place for partisanship in replacing "the strong independent vote we've had for 34 years," the vote of retiring G.O.P Senate Dean George Aiken. Leahy won in the end, by 4,000 votes...
Trying to free the economy of even some of this built-in waste will surely touch off a clamorous debate and, given the partisanship turn taken by the summit, add to the Administration's already great difficulties in getting its program through Congress. Wrangling in Congress, in turn, could deep en public uncertainty and apprehension about the economy. Indeed, the summit and preliminary meetings might have had that effect. They represented, at least in part, a calcu lated risk by Ford that the public could stand being told over and over again how serious the nation's economic...
...once believed would inevitably occur within a decade after 1947-has not occurred. But who can say for sure if that was the result of courageous U.S. policy, Russian prudence or sheer chance? What the cold war did to the U.S. can be more easily measured, especially since the partisanship that once labeled as un-American any evenhanded inquiry into the subject has now faded...