Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Reaction to the speech in Congress was sharply partisan. Democratic Senator Henry Jackson of Washington, a proponent of increasing military strength and generally no Carter ally on foreign policy issues, called the address "a good beginning on hammering out a doctrine [on Southwest Asia...
Whether the speed will continue is most doubtful. Election-year sessions of Congress are always intensely partisan affairs, and sounds of party conflict were rumbling last week beneath the foreign policy unity. Carter sent Congress a written 75-page State of the Union message touting his Administration's accomplishments in somewhat questionable language. Among other things, he claimed as a major achievement that "the decline in defense spending has been reversed"-totally ignoring his 1976 campaign pledge to cut it further. Republicans quickly rose to the bait. John Tower of Texas, chairman of the Senate Republican Policy Committee, said...
...months the candidates in both political parties who seek Jimmy Carter's job had watched helplessly as Americans rallied behind the President and supported his handling of the crisis in Iran. With hostages' lives in danger, most of Carter's opponents restlessly refrained from making any partisan criticism. But the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan changed everything, and last week any moratorium on presidential politicking ended with a bang...
Jerry Brown, the other major Democratic contender, criticized Carter for withdrawing from the scheduled debate with Kennedy and himself in Des Moines this week. The President argued that he should keep out of "partisan political" activity during the crisis in Iran. Brown, who had hoped to use the forum to show he belonged in the same league as his rivals, accused Carter of "ducking the debate and using Iran as his excuse...
...record suggests that Karmal will continue to be Moscow's man, a custom-tailored partisan, as it were. But no matter how slavishly he follows the policies of his Soviet mentors, Karmal does not appear to have the agility necessary to reconcile the tribal, religious and ideological disputes that divide his volatile country. Concludes Neumann: "He is not a very flexible fellow...