Word: carolinians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...claimed that he had uncovered "a covert plan" under which CIA funds were directly funneled into the campaign of Christian Democrat José Napoleón Duarte. Said Helms: "The State Department and the CIA bought Mr. Duarte lock, stock and barrel." Yet the fact that the ultraconservative North Carolinian, who openly supported Duarte's rightist adversary Roberto d'Aubuisson, took the lead on the issue may have muted the impact of the revelation...
Joseph Mitchell, a North Carolinian, once wrote a story called Hit on the Head with a Cow. The story was not so much about being hit on the head with a cow-although he had as a boy been felled by a beef that slipped its hoist as he prepared to skin it-but rather it was about the disoriented, pleasantly confused sensation that a knockdown blow begets, the same sort of crackbrained feeling that certain cranks, eccentrics, free spirits, if you will, can induce in any listener who truly tries to follow. Listening to Bob Windsor, another North Carolinian...
Founded in 1958 by Belmont resident Robert Welch--a native North Carolinian and part owner of the Welch Candy Company which produces Sugar Daddy and Sugar Babies--the Society was named for John Birch, an army intelligence officer killed by communists in China just after World...
Bumpers is hardly the only Senator who dislikes Helms. "There's a lot of irritability about him trying to drag us through a lot of issues we just don't need to deal with," observes one moderate Republican. Neither is the North Carolinian considered an effective legislator by his colleagues: rather than focus on one issue, Helms decided to offer a passel of bills and amendments, thus muddying his own agenda. "He can block, but he can't pass," noted an aide to the Senate leadership. At least one conservative Republican who knows a little about lost...
...White House's political operatives pointed out that with his Democratic opponent having recently been arrested for drunk-driving, Hartnett faced an easy election this fall. "Come on, Tommy," they insisted, "you can afford this vote." Two hours before balloting began, Energy Secretary James Edwards, a fellow South Carolinian and a friend, called to make a final pitch...