Word: bushed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ambassador George Bush said that the vote enhanced the U.N.'s "image of impotence." The organization's action-or inaction-did something even worse. It was a kind of ratification for the anarchic notion that even the most despicable crime can be rationalized as a "political act" simply by fiat of the perpetrator...
...GEORGE BUSH, 48, was named chairman of the Republican National Committee. This is something of a comedown for Bush, who has served creditably as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations for two years. "You do what the President asks you," he says. "And this is what he asked me to do." Bush has let it be known that he would have preferred something else; the chairmanship of the President's party usually has little power and less prestige. The man he replaces made no secret of the fact that he was being ousted from a job he wanted...
Considering the vitriolic nature of the charges, the U.S. response was unusually mild. George Bush, the American Ambassador to the U.N., merely remarked at a press conference that "there is nothing in our system designed to exploit anyone." He also paid a call on Allende later at his suite in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel...
Amin has already driven 26,000 Asians into exile. He has ordered the remaining 1,100 Asians, who are Ugandan citizens, to abandon their homes and businesses in the towns and become farmers in the bush country. He has decreed that national sports teams must be Africanized, which means, for example, that star Asian players will be dropped from the Uganda cricket team...
...mild revival of cold war rhetoric last week, Soviet Delegate Vasily Safronchuk ridiculed the U.S. decision, arguing among other things that New York City makes a lot of money from the U.N. Outraged, U.S. Delegate George Bush replied that the U.S. leads all nations in both its assessed and its far larger voluntary contributions to the U.N., bearing 40% of the total, while the Soviet Union trails badly with only 7%. "When the U.S.S.R. lectures my country on who does what to help," declared Bush, wagging a finger at Safronchuk, "please keep these figures in mind...