Word: democratically
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...Massachusetts, which sent the first Roman Catholic to the White House and the first black since Reconstruction to the Senate, a Jesuit priest, Robert Drinan, is seeking a Democratic congressional nomination. Drinan, 49, former vice president and law school dean of Boston College, has the support of a citizens' caucus as he seeks to oust Incumbent Democrat Philip Philbin, 71, a 14-term veteran who is vice chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. Though Philbin is favored, Drinan's liberalism and antiwar stand are popular with his district's relatively affluent, middle-class voters. These qualities...
Ostensibly, the hearings before Senator Gaylord Nelson's monopoly subcommittee in Washington last week did not constitute a trial, either of the Pill or of its proponents. The Wisconsin Democrat repeatedly expressed his resentment of any suggestion that they were so intended. But the atmosphere in the hearing room was tense with ill-concealed hostility between the Pill's attackers and its defenders. The give-and-take between Senators and witnesses, and even between Senators, had the tone of courtroom adversary procedure. The reason was clear: no new medical evidence had been presented in Nelson's first...
...solutions. When I write, I'm a passionate person, but I can't do it in a column. I slash too much." And Hoffer's replacement? Aaron Wildavsky, Dean of the graduate school of public affairs at the University of California at Berkeley, a nonactivist Humphrey Democrat who is to the left of Hoffer on race questions but right in step with Hoffer's views on student radicals: he's agin...
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With the ban still in effect last week, Honolulu's Democrat-controlled city council unanimously adopted a resolution "strongly reaffirming its deep faith in the freedom of the press and the free flow of information," and deploring "any restrictions, especially from government." Unless the mayor rescinds the ban. the feud will probably be resolved in the courts this spring. In the meantime, the newspaper and the mayor continue, as State Senator David McClung puts it, "to peck away at each other like a pair of outraged myna birds. Neither is doing the job that should or could be done...