Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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These offsetting appeals are likely to produce about 4 million votes for Bush among registered Republicans, mostly in affluent suburbs, and an equivalent base for Dukakis among the 4 million Democrats who voted for Walter Mondale in 1984, most of whom live in big cities. The election may be decided among Democrats in the suburbs, and in the Central Valley, the richest agricultural region in the U.S. (estimated value of its vegetables, nuts, grapes and cotton: $15 billion a year). The valley is home to 1.3 million voters, many of them transplants from the Southern states, who register...
Herrera, 46, who is rumored to be either in Costa Rica or at a U.S. air base in Panama, has used clandestine radio appeals and fax messages to invite senior military officers to join him in a coup. These colonels are thought to be opposed to Noriega's acceptance of Cuban advisers and weapons, as well as $20 million in Libyan aid. Many enlisted men, unhappy about poor pay and the corruption above them, are also receptive...
...President has little choice but to listen. His political base, the Democratic Justice Party (D.J.P.), which once carried out Blue House orders on the floor of the National Assembly with arrogant impunity, is no longer able to command a majority. Government omnipotence is a memory. In July, for example, Roh submitted the name of his candidate for Supreme Court Chief Justice to the National Assembly for approval, a matter that would have been routine in the old days. The legislature, however, rejected his choice, forcing the President to nominate someone untainted by past association with the military...
...midair mishap kills three Italian pilots and at least 47 spectators at a U. S. air base in West Germany, touching off a controversy about low- level flying within NATO. -- After being invited to meet with authorities, Poland' s Lech Walesa calls for striking workers to return to their jobs. -- A prosperous and newly democratized South Korea gets set to play host to the Olympics...
...summer weekends every year, U.S. and West European air bases throw open their gates to hundreds of thousands of spectators for air shows. The aeronautical extravaganzas are beloved by military officials as morale boosters and lures for potential recruits. The shows are equally appreciated by the public for the excitement, speed and spectacle. But all that glamour was blasted away last week during a few hellish minutes at the Ramstein U.S. Air Base in West Germany, about 70 miles southwest of Frankfurt...