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...Colin (pronounced Cole-in) Powell. Cheney, a brainy conservative from Wyoming, honed his political skills as chief of staff in Gerald Ford's White House. He was the respected Republican whip in the House of Representatives when Bush tapped him for Defense last year after the unsuccessful battle to confirm former Senator John Tower...
...widespread revulsion with Congress has lent spice to an otherwise boring midterm campaign. Public-opinion polls confirm that a cynical electorate has not been paying close attention to the race. But the anti-Washington mood has made some contests closer than expected -- and added some distracting...
...Michael S. Dukakis, speaking at the Kennedy School this week. Dukakis declined to confirm rumors that he would return to the K-School to teach when his term in the State House is over...
Exaggeration or not, this statement seems to confirm the worst fears of many of Germany's neighbors and quite a few Germans: that the unified Germany that was born at the stroke of midnight last night will produce a resurgence of German chauvinism and threaten the stable European order that has prevailed since the defeat of the Third Reich...
Andrei Andreyevich Gromyko, the Foreign Minister, was in New York City at a United Nations session. He was invited by Secretary of State Dean Rusk to Washington. Our position was neither to confirm nor to deny the presence of missiles, but in answer to a direct question, we would deny. Later we were accused of perfidy and dishonesty. Look who was making this accusation -- the U.S., which had us encircled with its own military bases! We were just copying the methods used by our adversaries. Besides, we had both a legal and moral right to make an agreement with Cuba...