Word: disavowed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Neither the non-candidate nor his aides seem to be encouraging or coordinating these efforts. Kennedy feels strongly that a direct challenge to Carter would seriously split the party, as Chairman White warns, but the draft efforts and his refusal to disavow, once and for all, his candidacy have already begun dividing Democrats. By his ambivalence, Kennedy is also helping to undermine Carter's political strength. Ironically, a weakened President will have trouble passing such an important measure as the SALT II treaty, which Kennedy himself favors. Although exaggerating Carter's problem, New York Senator Patrick Moynihan summed...
Perhaps the reason the ARCO Forum has provoked no uproar is that at Harvard, such an alliance seems so natural. But it is not too late to begin to change this situation. Students should demand that the Kennedy School disavow this alliance and the political bias it represents. The School should heed the Biblical dictum, "A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches," by returning the money and renouncing ARCO's name in order to restore...
...with the Khomeini regime in Iran: Publicly recognize the abdication of the Shah ("We have said we will work with the new government, but we have not said an awful lot about the guy sitting out there in Morocco"). Offer the new government technical, agricultural, industrial and educational aid. Disavow convincingly any thought of sponsoring a countercoup, still a subject of great worry to the Iranian revolutionaries. Replace U.S. Ambassador William H. Sullivan, who is thought to have been too close to the Shah. Train some of our State Department officers in Farsi "and send them over in waves...
...while most students and faculty are quick to disavow terrorism, they also charge that the government is overreacting-particularly against students-in an atmosphere of hysteria. "Oh God!" cried one Berlin student after learning of the Schleyer kidnaping. "One step closer to a fascist state." When a lampoon appeared at Gottingen University with a "non-obit" for Schleyer, tastelessly referring to his limited options of a "shabby life" or a "shabby death," police staged a three-hour search of the student-government building, its printing offices and two apartments. They seized 33 copies of the pamphlet, and the university rector...
...make a studied effort to deflate pretentiousness. Says Powell: "During the campaign, every time we got cocky, we got kicked on our ass." They also disavow any ravenous hunger for political prestige. "The last thing I want to do," says Jordan, "is spend the second half of my life reminiscing about my days of power in Washington...