Word: blunders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...press secretary is frank to admit his own mistakes. "I allowed myself to be too personally involved in the Bert Lance thing because of my affection for Bert," says he. That affection led him to the worst blunder of his White House tenure. When Republican Senator Charles Percy criticized Lance, the former Budget Director accused of financial improprieties, Powell leaked a tale that Percy had regularly flown on a corporate jet belonging to Bell & Howell, which he once headed. The jet, as it turned out, did not exist. Powell also claimed that Percy had failed to repay bank loans; Percy...
...conduct-would be so bold or dumb as to put his life on the line like that? Not a Frenchman, certainly, who would regard a scandal as droll; nor an Englishman, to be sure, who would regard it as an honor. No, only an American would blunder forth as in the Agee case, openly advocating fair play, the merit system, and the rights of privacy within the same declaration. Only an American would be so impatient as to prevent rumors from dying out on their own. It must be said too that only a male chauvinist American could make such...
Thud. By linking the President with the Klan, Reagan not only outraged Carter's supporters but offended no less than seven Southern Governors, who fired off wires protesting that Reagan had insulted the South. The President promptly jumped on the blunder: "I resent very deeply what Ronald Reagan said about the South and about Alabama and about Tuscumbia. Anybody who resorts to slurs and to innuendo against a whole region based on a false statement and a false premise is not doing the South or our nation a good service." Indeed, Reagan had compounded his mistake by getting...
...enduring strain of ineptitude runs through Italy's terrorism-on-the-right. Last December four NAR hit men were arrested after shooting down a young university student they mistakenly took to be Giorgio Arcangeli, an anti-Fascist lawyer. Thus the Di Leo blunder did not really surprise anyone. A "tactical error," the NAR called it in a rambling note late last week that said it would still go after Reporter Concina for "contributing to the falsehoods about the revolutionary vanguard." Warned the terrorists: "We will return. This time there will be no mistake...
Accompanied by the smugglers, the group slipped through the barbed wire fence on the night of July 3 and entered the U.S. Aliens are often picked up by trucks or buses after crossing on foot, but no one met this group. The 31 started to blunder through the park. They were ill equipped to walk a mile. They carried suitcases filled with winter clothes, Bibles and perfume. The party had only 20 1-gal. plastic water jugs...