Word: campaigners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During their meeting, Gorbachev and Haughey were photographed holding glasses of stout, the country's favorite drink. Gorbachev has championed an anti-drinking campaign in the Soviet Union, and it was not known whether he drank the stout...
...involved in serious accidents, revealed traces of marijuana. The tragedy fueled public support for the Government's expanding program to test employees for drugs. But the proliferation of testing among both public and private workers has spawned legal challenges from civil libertarians and labor leaders who see the antidrug campaign as a dangerous invasion of privacy...
...would give a reason for the impending firing except that George Bush and Lujan want their own team. Mott will be replaced by James Ridenour, director of Indiana's natural resources department. He was campaign finance chief for Dan Quayle when the Vice President won election to the Senate in 1980. Ridenour's new boss is expected to be Constance Harrington, a former attorney at the department and daughter of a Republican Party fund raiser. She is in line to be named Assistant Secretary of Fish and Wildlife and Parks. Said a department employee about Secretary Lujan: "It looks like...
...Gingrich may find himself caught in an ethics scandal similar to Wright's. One of the main charges against Wright is that he used an unusual royalty arrangement for his book, Reflections of a Public Man, to get around limitations on campaign contributions. The book was sold primarily in bulk to such political supporters as the Teamsters Union and Washington lobbyist John White. The Speaker pocketed a 55% royalty. The Ethics Committee is expected to release next week a potentially damning report on Wright's activities...
...since Stalin slammed down the Iron Curtain four decades ago has Europe witnessed such ferment east of the Elbe as that unleashed by Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev's campaign to reshape socialist politics and economics. In the past, when opposition escalated, the Kremlin dispatched tanks and troops to crush dissent. But since coming to power in 1985, Gorbachev himself has been the chief dissident, leading the assault on the status quo. Acknowledging that there is no "binding model" for socialism, he has encouraged pluri- Communism in Eastern Europe...