Word: blitz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last election from his hometown of Watertown and is trying to fend off a challenge by the city's town clerk, James Fahey. A split of Watertown loyalties could give the election to Cambridge Police Lt William H. Maher, who has launched an expensive, last minute media blitz. Albert DiNicola is the other candidate in the race...
...Nofziger, Reagan's longtime political troubleshooter, who had opposed the tax hikes before being won over by Reagan, coordinated the White House's lobbying blitz. More than 35 business and trade groups joined the effort. The President spoke with some balky lawmakers three or four times. Expecting his fourth phone call, Republican Gerald Solomon of New York left a message that he was sick and hid out in the House cloakroom. He voted...
...Prime Minister of Israel. In a cold fury, Ronald Reagan told Menachem Begin of his "outrage" that at the very moment when a negotiated settlement for the evacuation of Palestine Liberation Organization guerrillas appeared to be in sight, the Israeli armed forces were conducting their most severe air blitz of West Beirut. Virtually shouting, the President said that he was "shocked" at the Israeli attack, which he said had caused "needless destruction and bloodshed." The Israeli Prime Minister seemed incredulous, although in fact he had been expecting the President's call and dreading it. Begin assured Reagan that...
...Thursday blitz of Beirut had been under way for four hours when the Israeli parliament met in Jerusalem in special session. As former Chief of Staff Haim Bar-Lev, speaking for the opposition Labor Party, tried to open a discussion on the war, he was noisily interrupted by two members of the Democratic Front, the Israeli Communist Party. Shouted one: "At this very moment, women and children are being murdered in Beirut." Added the other: "Stop the murder! Stop the bombing!" When order had been restored, Bar-Lev spoke of the damage that had been done to Israel...
Israel's blitz into Lebanon and its brutal stranglehold on Beirut have aroused doubt, controversy, criticism and apprehension in the U.S. and within Israel itself. But one side effect of the episode is likely to be received as good news in both Washington and Jerusalem. Whatever damage it has done to the long-term interests of the U.S. and Israel, the crisis already seems to have increased the isolation of Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi...