Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...large audience frequently interupted the speakers, prompting moderator Roger Fisher '43, Williston Professor of Law, to call for order half a dozen times. Partisan members of the audience shouted down questioners several times, and on one occasion a policeman had to restrain an angry man from shouting his opinion. Turki, who also said the Palestinians "would be totally self-deceiving if we didn't see the Camp David accords as totally divorced from reality," drew the sharpest reaction from the crowd and from fellow panelists...
...housing grant to Nashua. White House surrogates-Rosalynn, Chip, Miss Lillian, Vice President Walter and Joan Mondale, Muriel Humphrey-have made New Hampshire a second home. But the biggest campaign boost of all would come from Iran. Jests a White House aide: "Do you think folks would yell 'partisan' if we flew the hostages back to Pease Air Force Base [outside Portsmouth...
...concern in Washington. Rumors persist that despite the leaks, not all of the Congressmen entangled in the Abscam net have yet been publicly identified. Thus, though all but one of the members of Congress pinpointed so far were Democrats, most Republicans cautiously refrained from making the new scandal a partisan political issue. An exception was Pennsylvania Republican Bud Shuster, chairman of the House Republican policy committee, who claimed, "History teaches that when one party is in power a long time, corruption increases. This is the result of one party's being in control of Congress for 25 years." Protested...
Eager to erase the bitter memories of last week's upset loss, Harvard's aquamen seized the opportunity to play giant killer themselves yesterday, winning ten of the eleven swimming events to hand perennial national power Indiana University a 67-46 setback before 1200 highly partisan fans at Blodgett Pool...
There appears to be less fuel for partisan wrangling in 1980 than in most presidential election years, however. The loudest fights usually come over domestic policy, and that is not what is preoccupying this Congress; its mind is on foreign affairs and defense. Says Tip O'Neill: "I think the mood out there is that we have to be prepared for conventional skirmishes, and the American people feel for the first time that we do not have that capability. I'm talking about the safety of the country, and you put that ahead of energy, inflation, balancing...