Word: blocs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Either way it hurts," said one party elder last week, summing up the "Jackson problem" confronting the Democrats. "Down one path we have to turn our backs on everything this party has purported to stand for--and on our most loyal voting bloc. Down the other, we face certain disaster in the fall...
Political sciencists couldn't have come up with a more perfect exercise in the use of military coercion. The territory of our treaty ally was invaded by her expansionist Soviet-bloc neighbor; the United States sent in troops as a warning that a deeper invasion would provoke the retaliation of our forces; the enemy withdrew without reaching its objective that threatened American national interest. It would all have been perfect, except for meddling by the Democratic congressmen who invited Managua to enjoy its Spring Break in Honduras...
Shamir, leader of the conservative Likud bloc, repeatedly resisted Peres' call for a formal Cabinet vote on the U.S. plan. He intends to offer his own peace initiative, which would give Palestinians some autonomy, but rather than beginning negotiations on the disposition of territories within nine months, it would stall for at least three more years. Last week the Palestine Liberation Organization foolishly played into Shamir's stonewalling strategy by hijacking a bus carrying civilians in Israel. The terrorist incident, which left three Israelis and all three guerrillas dead, bolstered Shamir's position that Israel should not enter into negotiations...
...bend in the trend. Last year movie attendance by those 40 and older rose 56% over the 1986 figures, according to the Motion Picture Association of America. The teen bloc, which still accounts for a hefty portion of the moviegoing universe, is losing the demographic race to yuppies and their elders. Having been tantalized by rented videos, adults are rediscovering the pleasures of moviegoing. Just ask Sidney Ganis, president of worldwide marketing for Paramount, which, spearheaded by such adult hits as The Untouchables and Fatal Attraction, was 1987's top studio. "Older audiences," Ganis says, "now know it's safe...
...triumph. Then came the scores and the boos. Thomas' marks for technical merit were high, but her grades for artistic presentation were much lower than those for Katarina Witt. Alex McGowan, Thomas' coach, held his nose in disgust. Later, McGowan seemed to accuse the three judges from East bloc countries -- Czechoslovakia, the Soviet Union and Witt's native East Germany -- of protecting Thomas' rival. "We don't want this political nonsense," he said. "We just want the best skater...