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Jackson actually has been campaigning for the presidency since 1971, when he played a spoiler role in the campaign for the 1972 Democratic nomination. Poorly organized and poorly prepared, he showed traces of demagoguery in his desperate bid for attention. He ignored a lifetime dedication to civil rights by proposing a constitutional amendment against busing to desegregate public schools. He called McGovern the candidate for "amnesty, acid and abortion," an unfair phrase that stung and stuck. After the campaign, Time Oil Co. and Gulf Oil Corp. were fined for giving him illegal contributions. In addition, the Senate Watergate committee reported...
...Crimson cagers have faded from the limelight of Ivy contention thanks to a 77-76 upstaging by Brown last weekend and now assume the role of spoiler as the second half of league play gets underway tonight against Princeton...
Princeton, meanwhile, is relegated to the role of the spoiler as the Tigers have gone winless in four games, losing three of them. But Harvard certainly cannot afford to take Princeton too lightly (there's an old sports cliche about looking ahead and not seeing what's coming up from behind) as the Tigers could salvage a good deal of pride with an upset victory...
...testimony indicates that the Agency role in 1970 was viewed as that of the "spoiler," involving general attempts to politically destabilize the country and discredit Allende to improve the likelihood that an opposition candidate would...
Appointed by President Johnson in mid-1968 as Viet Nam commander, Abrams presided with considerable skill over the American withdrawal from the fighting. He de-emphasized the Westmoreland strategy of massive search-and-destroy missions, favoring more mobile "spoiler" patrols of four or five men sent out to ambush and disrupt the enemy. Abrams gave subordinate commanders unusually wide latitude. Always a strong believer in risking machines more than men, he smoothly replaced ground forces with planes as troop reductions proceeded...