Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Write letters to friendly editors asking them to help you "awaken the conscience" of America to deal with the trouble. When a leading columnist suggests that by using Government so dramatically in the crisis you are interfering with natural economic law, ignore...
...security dissolved. "I feel a lot poorer today," sighed Bee Fitzpatrick, a New Orleans mother of two. Even if the market recovers some ground over the next few weeks, many people will still be uneasy about the future after seeing how far and how fast stocks can fall. As Columnist Robert Reno of Newsday, a New York newspaper, put it, "Nobody who has been on a falling elevator and survived ever again approaches such a conveyance without a fundamentally reduced degree of confidence...
...government of Corazon Aquino, Columnist Luis Beltran of the daily Philippine Star has always been a gadfly. Last year he caused a stir by accusing a top Aquino aide of leaking vital state papers. Last week Beltran wrote that during the failed military mutiny in August "the President hid under her bed . . . perhaps the first commander in chief of the armed forces...
...power last year, but in spite of repeated promises, it was never disarmed. The provisional government has prosecuted only a few of the most notorious thugs. "It isn't easy to get rid of something as basic as the Macoutes," says Aubelin Jolicoeur, a Haitian journalist and former gossip columnist. The recent rampages have a signature style that has led many Haitians to suspect that elements of the Macoutes are involved: the late-night assaults, the beatings of entire families, the arbitrariness, the brutality...
...Aquino did not move against politicians linked to the conspiracy. Instead, she shut down one radio station that had been broadcasting antigovernment messages and served warning on three others. To many skeptical observers, the threatened coup was merely a ruse to justify chilling the media. Said Columnist Maximo Soliven of the Philippine Star: "That's a song we have heard before -- with the lyrics by Marcos and the music by Imelda...