Word: confirms
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...Soviet system. Any number of Kremlinologists, political scientists and other commentators do so all the time. But when a chief of state talks that way, he roils Soviet insecurities and implies that it is the aim of the U.S. Government to bring the Soviet regime down. That tends to confirm the Soviets' pessimistic and alarmist view of Reagan and make them all the more obstreperous...
Nevertheless, last week's results showed once again that there is a deep reluctance among Democratic voters to confirm Mondale as the nominee. In Texas, for instance, where Mondale's superb organization won the caucuses, many voters were bitter about the candidate as they left the polls. "Mondale embarrasses me," complained Democrat Russell Glenn of Odessa. "He's got more special interests behind him than west Texas has dirt roads." Said Victoria Crosby of Brownsville: "If Mondale gets the nomination, I'll vote for Reagan." In Ohio, fully one-third of the voters in the Democratic...
Such a backlash would confirm the worst fears of many mainstream black leaders, who feel that Jackson is ill-versed in the delicate art of building interracial coalitions. Jackson has never held an elected office. Whereas mayors like Young and Bradley needed to court white votes to win elections, Jackson has opted for confrontation, forging all-black protest blocs to demand concessions. At Operation PUSH, he organized boycotts of white businesses in order to win more contracts and jobs for minorities. In the process he was able to wring concessions from such companies as Anheuser-Busch, Coca-Cola and Kentucky...
...ports, by Latin American commandos recruited and trained by the CIA and dispatched aboard speedboats from a CIA mother ship cruising off Nicaragua's Pacific coast. Not until March 30, in a letter to the Senate Intelligence Committee staff that congressional sources disclosed last week, did the CIA confirm, in its inimitable bureaucratic jargon, that the raids were carried out by "unilaterally controlled latino assets...
...post-Andropov era was the attention paid to Gorbachev, 53. Ever since Andropov's death, there have been indications that Gorbachev was in effect the country's new No. 2 man. The fact that he should be the one to nominate Chernenko for the presidency seemed to confirm that a cautious transfer of power to the next generation had begun. The same honor was given to Chernenko when Andropov got the job last June...