Word: carterized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Veil also gives a detailed account of the CIA's history of covert support for the Nicaraguan contras and reveals that the agency, beginning in the Carter years, gave financial aid to La Prensa, the opposition newspaper that was shut down for 15 months by the Sandinista government before reopening last week. Past charges by the Sandinistas that the paper was CIA-supported have been denied, and Publisher Violeta Chamorro last week labeled Woodward's revelation "totally false...
...revive the hostilities of the 1950s and '60s over desegregation. Announcing his opposition to Bork last week, Texas Democrat Lloyd Bentsen remarked, "In virtually every case where he has taken a position, Judge Bork has opposed the advancement of civil rights over the past 25 years." Former President Jimmy Carter stressed that point in a letter he sent to the Senate Judiciary Committee last week. Wrote Carter: "As a Southerner who has observed personally the long and difficult years of the struggle for civil rights for black and other minority people, I find Judge Bork's impressively consistent opinions...
...Boston Globe came home after some lonely wanderings with a young Senator and mused on paper that the Kennedys were coming. Bob Healy's evidence was mostly in his gut -- but so right. The New York Times's Johnny Apple roamed the prairie hustings with Jimmy (who?) Carter in 1975 and startled the world with a story in October that the Georgian might...
...Douglas Miles, a Baltimore religious leader, calls the "promise of what has historically been touted as the best of the black community -- squeaky clean, intellectual and an achiever." Schmoke was a star quarterback in high school and student-body president at Yale, served as an aide to President Jimmy Carter, and was appointed an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Baltimore. Running for office for the first time in 1982, he was elected the city's state's attorney...
...years. Just like the man who planted it, the willow oak seems determined to be bigger and better than anything else within sight. Dwight Eisenhower's Quercus palustris is already 75 ft. tall and shows no sign of slowing down; pin oaks are devils in competition. Jimmy Carter's youngster, Acer rubrum, is a red maple that is putting on two to three feet each year...