Word: cannonism
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...standard procedure in such a case. It was immediately publicized by the State Department even though it somewhat undercut the American position. A remark by the pilot of the Su-15 that shot down the airliner, originally said to be unintelligible, was revised to read, "I am firing cannon bursts." This seemed to buttress the Soviet claim that its pilot had fired tracer shots to warn the Korean jetliner away from Soviet airspace...
SENTENCED. Billy Cannon, 46, former pro football star and a living legend in Louisiana, where he earned a 1959 Heisman Trophy as running back for L.S.U.; to five years in prison and a $10,000 fine, the maximum penalty, after he pleaded guilty to involvement in a massive counterfeiting scheme; in Baton Rouge. A successful Baton Rouge orthodontist after he retired from football in 1970, Cannon appeared to be a model citizen until federal investigators in July traced a staggering $6 million in bogus $100 bills...
...black leadership family endorsed the concept of a black candidacy but did not name Jackson. Because of Jackson's grass-roots popularity, however, few prominent black leaders oppose him openly, though many do privately. "I just don't trust him. He's like a loose cannon," confessed one black Southern official. "He's never finished anything he's started...
...number of Cannon's colleagues do not believe they are being charmed, disarmed or taken in, but they do think they are being outmaneuvered by Reagan's people and are frustrated. Some of these irritations were discussed recently on Hodding Carter's Inside Story on PBS. Jody Powell remembered how he worried, as Jimmy Carter's press secretary, about whether a bitter and cynical press corps had become "a permanent fixture in American politics." Under Reagan, Powell acknowledged, the hostility on both sides has ebbed: "Most reporters I talk to say they generally sort of like...
...Cannon recently angered the White House with a Page One report that the President had been "rambling" and "confused" in briefing a handful of reporters. But Cannon insisted, "I care about him. I don't ever want to take a cheap shot at him." He thinks Reagan gets the benefit of the doubt on "marginal or close calls because of his genuineness." Reagan also gains, Cannon believes, from a new mood of "a Restoration, not of the Johnson and Nixon imperial presidencies, but of a larger-than-life presidency. Everyone wants our Presidents to be up on a pedestal...