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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...referendum would have our elected representatives censure Israel for its actions rather than using American influence to bring both sides of the conflict together in negotiations. Calling for a complete cut-off of American aid to Israel is a blackmail tactic not befitting of reasoned foreign policy. Referenda should be for constructive purposes, not for partisan manipulation. It would be more productive for us to call on Israel to change its methods and start pushing for peace, than to cut off all effective ties with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No on Question Five | 11/7/1988 | See Source »

...Back to Willie Horton. You call it cynical; other people would call it racist. Yet you did not come out strongly to condemn these ads as racist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Interview with Michael Dukakis | 11/7/1988 | See Source »

...What would you call...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Interview with Michael Dukakis | 11/7/1988 | See Source »

...couldn't. I didn't want to put them in danger. Second, I didn't want to unmask my presence. Who wouldn't talk? Especially the small kids, children who might call out, "Arafat is here! Arafat is here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interview: with Yasser Arafat: Knowing the Enemy | 11/7/1988 | See Source »

...acknowledge that even family counseling is likely to be seen as a sign of weakness. Psychologist Charles Figley, who treats state and local officials in Indiana, helps ease the way for them by inviting them to his home, disguising their counseling sessions as dinner parties. Better, he says, to call it "educational consultation." At least, that is, until voters wise up and begin to prefer flesh-and-blood First Families to all those smiling, we've-nothing-to-hide supporting casts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: So, Your Old Man's a Fraud . . . | 11/7/1988 | See Source »

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