Word: partisanship
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...last name indicated that it was meant for Maine's Democratic Senator Edmund Muskie, but first name prevailed, and it went instead to Maine's senior Senator, Republican Margaret Chase Smith. "This surely must be the ultimate in the OEO's great effort for non-partisanship," Maggie told the Senate. "It not only blends a Republican Senator with a Democratic Senator, but the Senate with the House...
...stack the cards even further, festival officials told Conductor Zubin Mehta that he must remove the scheduled Tchaikovsky Fourth from his program; Russian music, Mehta was informed, belonged to Russian orchestras. With concerts by the two ensembles scheduled only 24 hours apart, observers watched for signs of Rumanian cultural partisanship...
...serious mistake." Officially, the Administration agreed, pinning its public hopes on the United Nations to settle the crisis before the Israelis lose patience and try to break the blockade themselves. But many U.S. policymakers are disenchanted with U.N. Secretary-General U Thant, not only for his blatant partisanship on Viet Nam, but also for his aphronic action in pulling the entire U.N. peace-keeping force out of the Sinai desert, particularly since Nasser originally asked him to remove it from only half of the 120-mile truce line. In a rare public slap at Thant, Johnson said he was "dismayed...
Sensitive to charges of partisanship, the institute has balanced its guest list with an eye to political realities. First came Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, whose appearance touched off a raucous student protest (TIME, Nov. 18). Then came Republican House Minority Leader Gerald Ford, followed by Detroit's Democratic Mayor Jerome Cavanagh. Scheduled this spring are Republican George Romney and Democrat Carl Sanders, former Governor of Georgia...
...They went like this: 'Our national strategy, formed upon a bipartisan basis, was to hold the frontiers of freedom by our own main strength until the depleted nations of Europe and Japan could find their feet and begin to share responsibility for the common defense of freedom. Irresponsible partisanship on matters of national interest is not only bad policy: it is bad politics.'" Concluded Scott: "Those are the words of the man who was then and is now the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee...