Word: callings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first reports of Higgins' murder, the President cut short a Western- states speechmaking trip to return to Washington. He quickly conveyed his sorrow and outrage in a phone call to Higgins' wife Robin, a Marine public affairs officer. But throughout the week Bush was careful to apply a lesson that had been painfully learned by Jimmy Carter: never let a hostage crisis appear to consume the presidency. The President went to unusual lengths to create what might be called a mood of concerned normalcy, acting as host at a barbecue for members of Congress, playing tennis, even attending a ball...
...hopeful trends do little to help the remaining hostages. Some Administration officials are pessimistic about the prospects for a deal as long as one of Hizballah's priorities remains the release of 15 members of a closely affiliated Shi'ite fundamentalist group called Al Dawa (the Call). The 15 are imprisoned in Kuwait for a series of 1983 bomb attacks on the U.S. and French embassies there. Kuwait has stoutly refused Al Dawa's demands for the release of the prisoners, some of whom are relatives of Hizballah leaders. Said a close Bush adviser: "There's a family tie there...
...allies as well. However, as last week's threatened defection by the Peasants demonstrated, there is growing impatience with the compromise implicit in the round-table agreement. Observed the Solidarity daily Gazeta Wyborcza in an editorial: "Society does not understand why the new Cabinet, which would like to call itself a government of national salvation, should be headed by a representative of a party responsible for creating the situation from which society must be saved...
...someone like Williams in the Department of Education at all? And why is the position of assistant secretary of education still unfilled? Despite Bush's call for a governor's conference on education, despite his Educational Excellence Act, this state of limbo in the Department of Education refutes Bush's claims to be the Education President...
...learn we had a landing-gear problem. People kind of looked around. The pilot announced there was a mechanical problem. We went out over the water and did what they call a G-force manuever, it was like a roller coaster. Then we tried to land hard to bounce it free. That didn't work...