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Within the larger framework of Watergate and the economy, specific elections, as always, came down to a contest of personalities. This explains in part why an increasingly conservative voting public?as uncovered by TIME Soundings and other surveys?chose a more liberal Congress. With only rare exceptions, voters ignored traditional party or ideological categories. In Vermont, says former Governor Philip H. Hoff, "the ticket-splitting was just staggering." It helped elect Democrat Patrick J. Leahy to the Senate from traditionally Republican Vermont...
...story) when he learned of the Arab leaders' endorsement of the P.L.O. Publicly, the Secretary would admit only that it delayed the progress of Middle East peace negotiations. "I do not believe," he said, "that the door to all negotiations in the Middle East is closed. But in what framework there can be negotiations?that will have to be seen...
Bahar, too, in her naivete, fails to present a completely convincing character, not because one can't believe her circumstances, but because more is needed of her personal background or of the cultural framework in which the film is set. Ossman is probably the best portrayed of the three, but only because his character is easily accessible; he knows what he wants--it is only a matter of timing and shrewdness...
However, Young said freshmen had already begun to take the initiative themselves. "I don't want to push it," he said. "I would rather suggest and let people think within a big framework, defining their terms...
...become clogged with abstract rhetoric and petty haranguing over who will lead the revolution, which of the diverse Communist or Socialist groups is right, or any of the other questions that fragment many Marxist organizations. Her immediate struggle is not to present to the masses an intellectually ideological framework, but rather the need to fight institutional racism and repression...