Word: attacks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...secret of George Bush's success is to employ muck mavens like Atwater -- even elevate them to prominence -- and then dissociate himself from their tactics. Last week the President acknowledged that the attack on Tom Foley was "disgusting . . . against everything I have tried to stand for in political life." Yet, though Atwater initially defended the Foley smear, Bush stood up for him. Atwater's fouling the civic atmosphere with vicious misinformation is bad enough; compounding that with White House hypocrisy is too much. If Bush really wants to prove himself a political environmentalist in search of a kinder, gentler America...
...host of top leaders and party elders, as well as representatives of all key factions in the military, including those who had been considered loyal to party moderates. Present too were President Yang Shangkun, 82, a former army general and the reputed mastermind of the Tiananmen attack, and Qiao Shi, 64, the state security chief who may become General Secretary of the Communist Party. Conspicuously missing was the incumbent in that post, the moderate Zhao Ziyang, whose whereabouts have remained unknown since late last month, when he held sympathetic talks with student representatives in Tiananmen. The officials applauded as Deng...
Constant and mysterious military movements stirred confusion and alarm. Tank convoys rumbled to the east, away from Tiananmen, only to return a few hours later. Armored vehicles were deployed at a strategic cloverleaf east of the square, as if awaiting attack by another military force. Rumors of skirmishes, even artillery duels between the "bad" 27th Army and the "good soldiers" of the 38th Army, fluttered through the capital. With fear of an armed confrontation rampant, foreign governments ordered the evacuation of their nationals. Beijing airport was packed with diplomats, tourists and businessmen waiting for tickets and specially chartered planes...
...promise of noninterference. "He's on the telephone to us almost every day," a senior Time officer said several weeks before Davis made his move. "He's just unhappy that he's been left out. He can't stop kibitzing." All the while, however, Davis was preparing his attack under the code name Kronos, for a Greek god associated with time. Davis was advised by Robert Greenhill, vice chairman of the Morgan Stanley investment banking firm, which is now Paramount's chief adviser in the bid. Paramount said last week that Donald Rumsfeld, a former Defense Secretary, has agreed...
Cornwell's conclusion is that John Paul I died of a pulmonary embolism. (In 1978 the Vatican had said a heart attack was the cause.) His death apparently resulted from long-standing medical problems that were exacerbated by the early pressures of being Pope. Still, Rome may rue the day it encouraged Cornwell. The full story of the Pope's death, says Cornwell, is "much more shameful" than mere murder, and "the whole of the Vatican is responsible." In the days before he died, says Cornwell, John Paul suffered severe chest pains and swelling of his legs, yet nobody sought...