Word: politicians
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Paradoxically, whatever chance the Administration proposal will have in Congress depends less on Nixon's Postmaster General, Winton (Red) Blount, than on that Democratic stalwart, Lawrence F. O'Brien. Blount admits that he has developed a reputation as being "the worst politician in Washington," and there are few on the Hill who would disagree. He avoided consulting with congressional leaders on the new proposal until the last minute, for instance, and has remained practically unknown to the postal workers' union chiefs. O'Brien's political powers are obviously needed to soften the opposition...
...politician who takes bribes is worse than an adulterer...
...round April 1, fully 74% of the electorate went for Yorty's opponents. Bradley led the field of 14 with 42%, a remarkable showing for a black candidate in a city where Negroes constitute less than one-fifth of the population. But Democrat Bradley is no insular ghetto politician. A lawyer and retired police lieutenant who had bootstrapped himself out of poverty (as youngsters, he and a brother took turns with their single suit), Bradley organized what he called a "coalition of conscience." It included blacks, Mexican-Americans, white liberal Democrats and independents. After the April round eliminated...
Since his assassination, Bobby Kennedy has undergone a considerable transformation in the American memory and conscience. Few today recall Kennedy as the abrasive prosecutor, aggressive politician, and outspoken advocate. The reputation that lingers is one he went far toward creating during the last few months of his life: war critic, champion of the black and the Mexican-American, crusader for the very young, the very old, and all those who have been shunted aside from social and economic progress. His murder gave a new poignancy-and a new political legitimacy-to the people and the causes he sponsored and sheltered...
...weeks before it was overthrown, the ruling coalition had been in effect a caretaker government, after the powerful Umma Party had healed a split between its traditionalist and progressive wings. The man in line to become Prime Minister had been Sadik Mahdi, 33, a progressive, development-minded politician who had made a promising start on solving the Sudan's problems during a brief stint as Prime Minister in 1966-67. Just after the take-over last week, Sadik gathered with his followers in the anteroom of the holy tomb of the Mahdi in Omdurman. Dressed in a white silk...