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...attitude in Congress, says one leader, is "in transition" toward a softer stance on the conflict. There is talk of reminding the electorate next year that Democrats controlled the White House when the U.S. entered each of its last four wars. Because the G.O.P. until now has been more staunch in its support of the Administration's Viet Nam policy than the Democrats, some Republicans fear political damage if progress in Viet Nam continues to be slow. Kentucky Senator Thruston Morton, a former G.O.P. national chairman, said recently: "It is essential that the party find an alternative course...
Realistic Negroes have no hope for anything less than staunch segregationist Democrats in all the State's top posts. Only in the 12 counties where Negroes hold a substantial edge in voter regiistration do they have a chance to elect their own candidates or sympathetic whites. In the other elections, it is only a matter of which brand of segregation is most suitable...
People expected the Traveler's publishers. representatives of the Yankee manufacturers and businessmen of Massachusetts, to feel similarly about the role of their paper. But the Traveler, merely to stay alive had to shed some of the staunch Republicanism that had marked its earlier years, something which the stronger morning Boston Herald did not have to do. As a device for reaching and infulencing the market that the Traveler used to hit, the corporation's television stations, WHDH, Channel 5, was far more effective. Furthermore, and perhaps most important, Traveler publisher George Akerson has an outlook entirely different from that...
...Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen likes to kid the President that the new father's parents are a pair of staunch Republicans from Waukegan...
...eight of India's 17 state governments and dropped 82 seats in the lower house of Parliament. Hoping to deal Indira yet another blow, seven opposition parties, ranging from far-rightists to Peking-lining leftists, rallied behind a single candidate, former Supreme Court Chief Justice Subba Rao, a staunch Hindu. But the vote, conducted in the state assemblies and na tional Parliament, went to Husain by a solid margin...