Word: belief
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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ASOLUTION to the situation on the West Bank must come from Israel, regardless of Arab intentions, because the principle danger to the Jewish state now comes from within. With that belief in mind I offer the following "peace" plan...
...gander, and Jezebel, the goose -- are often featured in Wiggin's Aesop-like bimonthly column. Once a "mover and a shaker," he steered the Washington Post's coverage of every crisis from the Berlin Wall to the Viet Nam War. No more. "You can't flatter yourself in the belief that you can leverage the world from the perimeter of Ellsworth, Me.," he says. "But I enjoy rural life a lot better than I do big cities. I'm at home in this environment." Happiness, he says, is an old age shared with Ben Franklin's three faithful friends...
...deficit to arms control. His ideas are, in fact, sophisticated and sensible. Haig knows his chances are dim. He blames the system and the Republican Party "apparatchik" for locking him out. But he believes in himself, and has nothing to lose and much satisfaction to gain by selling that belief to the public...
...biggest elements in Reagan's landslide re-election was the widespread belief that he had brought the U.S. a kind of permanent prosperity. Reaganomics -- which meant cutting taxes and incurring deficits beyond anything John Maynard Keynes ever dreamed -- struck some experts as voodoo economics (as the future Vice President George Bush christened it in 1980), but the boom rolled on. A doubled national debt of more than $2 trillion? Trade deficits of more than $15 billion a month? What did that matter, when inflation had been cut to about 4.5%, unemployment to 5.9%, and the Dow Jones soared well over...
...California appeals-court judge sailed smoothly through two days of questioning. Unlike Bork, he assured Senators of his respect for previous Supreme Court decisions and belief in an individual's "zone of liberty" from Government intrusion. Despite the grumblings of conservatives still smarting over the rejection of Bork, Kennedy seems assured of confirmation when the Senate reconvenes after Christmas recess...