Word: attackable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reference to your April 4th editorial, "Final Clubs: Battling Elitism," you wrote "It's impossible to attack the final clubs on strictly legal grounds for charging money and choosing who they want--thousands of (other clubs) do the same thing. Financiai elitism is protected by our laws, gender elitism is not." Gender discrimination is clearly practiced by the clubs: none of the nine presently admit women. Some would say this is an issue which would fall within the bounds of an argument on the interpretation of constitutional law, around the definition of the right of free association...
...other Democrats, the Duke has already been blasting at a variety of targets, from the misadventures of the hapless Ed Meese to the federal deficit to mismanagement in the Pentagon. That makes partisan sense; while the Democrats have been sniping at each other, Bush has enjoyed relative immunity from attack since he locked up the Republican nomination...
...Christopher Edley, has done an outstanding job as the campaign's issues director. The top-ranking black on the Governor's team, Edley could wind up as chief domestic-policy adviser. Standing in the wings is Sasso, the mastermind of the campaign, who left after distributing the Joseph Biden "attack video" last fall. From his office at a Boston advertising agency, Sasso has kept in touch with the candidate. Should Dukakis go all the way to the White House, Sasso is likely to follow, perhaps as chief of staff...
During the attack, air force personnel, flying a Boeing 707 fitted with electronic jamming devices, hovered about 100 miles outside Tunisian airspace, close enough to jam communications in the area. The Boeing 707 also served as a relay station between Israeli personnel off the Tunisian coast, the hit squad and I.D.F. headquarters in Tel Aviv. Throughout the operation, the commanding general, Ehud Barak, 47, the army's Deputy Chief of Staff, stayed aboard the vessel in the Mediterranean. Barak had participated in a similar operation in April 1973, when Israeli commandos raided Palestinian headquarters in Beirut, killing three P.L.O. leaders...
...Israeli commandos boarded their ship about four days before the April 16 attack, but Israel's ten-member inner Cabinet was not informed of the final plan until just hours before it was carried out. The Cabinet had approved preparations for the mission shortly after the Prime Ministers' Club had decided on the plan. At the time, the only reservations were sounded by Peres and Minister Without Portfolio Ezer Weizmann, who voiced strong objections. Now, with al-Wazir's assassination only hours away, eight Cabinet members again endorsed the plan and the same two holdouts renewed their objections. Last week...