Word: bunkerism
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...lobby believes that the right to bear arms is essential to individual freedom and safety and is absolutely guaranteed by the Second Amendment to the Constitution. This dedication produces a for-us-or-against-us bunker mentality that provokes unremitting opposition to any politician whose support is less than total. Early in his career, former South Dakota Senator George McGovern favored banning small handguns, but in the face of N.R.A. pressure, he ended up supporting efforts to decontrol gun purchases. Nevertheless, the gun lobby last fall threw its support, and more than $30,000, behind his successful pro-gun opponent...
...Salvador last week. When it landed, out stepped five U.S. Navy men in civilian dress-the latest contingent of "trainers" sent to El Salvador by Washington. The next day, four men in a gray Toyota pickup truck swerved past the U.S. embassy in San Salvador and raked the bunker-like building with gunfire. No one was injured, no shots were fired back, and the truck quickly sped off. Meanwhile, in cities across the U.S., opponents of American aid to El Salvador's military-civilian junta laid plans for teach-ins, marches, vigils and hunger strikes...
Board Chairman Richard Bunker reminded Sinatra about his conversation that year with Edward Olsen, then chairman of the State Gaming Commission, which was recorded in a memo. "Listen, Ed," said Sinatra, when told that he was being investigated. "I haven't had to take this ... from anybody in the country, and I'm not going to take it from you people." When Olsen warned that the singer might be subpoenaed to testify, Sinatra said: "You just try and find me. And if you do, you can look for a big, fat surprise." Was that a threat...
...Bunker asked last week. "Absurd," replied Sinatra...
...novel, Final Payments. Both books dealt with the unavoidable responsibilities and equally unavoidable satisfactions of family, though the world according to Gordon was quite different from Irving's literary Astrodome. Readers of Final Payments found themselves in a small house in a working-class neighborhood of Queens, Archie Bunker country without one-liners. The heroine, Isabel Moore, had spent all of her 20s caring for her invalid father, a man impacted with hatred for liberalism and the non-Catholic world...