Word: barretts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reported by Laurence I. Barrett and Johanna McGeary/Washington
...over covert action is costing Reagan valuable political capital. The question now is whether the U.S. can sustain its covert operation long enough to wear down the Sandinistas or, failing in that, develop an overt response that will accomplish the same end. -By Walter Isaacson. Reported by Laurence I. Barrett and Christopher Redman/ Washington
...returned $128,000. Ford regularly gives back $12,000 to $14,000 a year in expenses. When Nixon moved from Manhattan to a house in Saddle River, N.J., he spent $50,000 of his own money to convert a carport into a Secret Service command post. Ford Aide Robert Barrett defends the federal allowances. Says he: "It's the only reasonable way to deal with what former Presidents have to deal with." -By Maureen Dowd. Reported by Hays Gorey/Washington
...thing around." Reagan also tried to turn public opinion with his recent star wars appeal for military spending increases. As last week's events made clear, that speech failed to convince even the Republicans. With friends like that, who needs Democrats? -By Ed Magnuson. Reported by Laurence I. Barrett and Neil MacNeil/Washington
...uncommonly affecting. Take Dorsey, for example. He combines a holy man's zeal, a performer's ego and a revered older man's self-contentment, and the film's portrait of him becomes a little essay on the patriarch as enigma. Or consider Delois Barrett Campbell. Onstage she is a shatteringly forceful singer. Off stage she is married to the minister of a humble church who has trouble understanding the ambition that must lie behind a talent as large as hers. Like any wife whose career has outstripped her husband's, she would rather divert...