Word: reassertions
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...moment seemed to be that of the lame duck's ugly duckling-although the President himself was not acting noticeably lame in such matters as Supreme Court appointments and foreign affairs.* Humphrey is hobbled by his identification with the Johnson regime and unable as yet to reassert the highly individual and creative style that marked his congressional career; he worries not so much about the August convention as about November, when a Republican candidate might foreseeably walk into the White House over the wreckage of the Democratic Party. Humphrey's dilemma lies not so much in any lack...
...Reasserting the Past. A chief characteristic of today's revolutionaries, thinks Zbigniew Brzezinski, professor of government at Columbia, is that they don't really know what they want-other than violent change. Current protesters and rioters, writes Brzezinski in The New Republic, have much in common with the Luddites or Chartists of 19th century England, or even with the National Socialists and Fascists of this century. Unable to cope with the complexities of the present, many of them try desperately to reassert simplistic values of the past. What passes for revolution in their case, says Brzezinski, is nothing...
...existence. For too long, the average American has bought off "his own sense of guilt" by trying to alleviate poverty through his tax money. It is time to eliminate government as a cure all for the problems of the Negro. Government has tried, and failed. It is time to reassert our humanity and take private, individual action in the race crisis. Let one human being help another, and let one government help another. We, as people, have shirked our duty long enough...
...final by-election vote, a right-wing candidate drained off support from the Christian Democrats and the coalition candidate coasted to victory, leaving Frei with only twelve of the Senate's 45 seats. This week Frei hopes to reassert his authority at a two-day party meeting, but beforehand he suggested the possibility of forming a coalition government with leftist parties. Unless he can somehow regain control of his party, Chile's far-left coalition could well sweep into the presidency in the 1970 elections without any need of Frei's Christian Democrats-if the army does...
...crisis of authority was caused last week by an issue that Harold Wilson quickly grasped-if he did not pump it up on purpose-in order to reassert his party command. South Africa, it seemed, wanted to buy ?200 million worth of arms, and could Britain please forget its three-year-old support of the U.N. embargo to sell them? It appeared that there could scarcely be an easier way of uniting all Labor than giving it a chance to say no to the Vorster apartheid regime. But at least five ministers, led by Foreign Secretary George Brown, declined...