Word: capitulationism
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Real rightists thought Nixon too had a squishy center. To the disgust of the Goldwater faction, he had spent much of the 1960 campaign courting Nelson Rockefeller, the lustrous epitome of the party's East Coast liberals. The last straw came on the eve of the G.O.P. Convention. At a...
Yet after a contest so starkly cast, the road ahead is surprisingly obscure. Some fear it is simply dark, a right turn away from the path of peace; for others it is merely ambiguous. Netanyahu is Prime Minister by just 29,507 votes of 3.1 million cast, a decimal-point...
For sheer drama few novelists would dare invent the stories of these correspondents: Cecil Brown (one of the long-forgotten Murrow boys) plunging off a sinking ship into the South China Sea; Eric Sevareid parachuting out of a doomed plane over the Himalayas and being rescued by a tribe of...
Kasper said Pepsi's possible capitulation on the Burma issue showed the importance of student protest.
With the announcement last week that Liggett, the smallest of the nation's five major cigarette makers, had agreed to settle the Castano class action in Louisiana on behalf of all smokers and five state Medicaid suits against cigarette makers, the landscape of tobacco litigation underwent a seismic shift. In...