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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trend is real, "but there is no reason to be inordinately concerned about the danger of elevating style over substance: in reality, there is a very strong correlation between the two. Walter Mondale is viewed as bland and traditional because he has staked out a position as a cautious and experienced politician, and he has focussed on the old Democratic issues--fairness, aid to the poor and the unemployed, etc. While this helps him with the old-line party groups like Blacks, industrial union members, and lower income people, it hurts him with the independents...

Author: By David Keir, | Title: The Long March | 4/2/1984 | See Source »

...four years or eight years, the river, flooded by storms that are too far away to be seen, changes its course, and you are left in a desert, all alone. These irrational changes, of course, produced by a political vengefulness that is alien to American life, are a great danger. They confuse our friends, mislead our adversaries and confound our own plans for a more manageable world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alexander Haig | 4/2/1984 | See Source »

There was not, however, a unity of views within the Administration over how to respond. Very nearly the first words spoken on the subject of Central America it the councils of the Reagan Administration made reference to the danger of "another Viet Nam." Indeed, this danger existed, if Reagan repeated the errors of the past and resorted to incrementalism. To start small, to show hesitation, to localize our response was to Vietnamize the situation. If it is easier to escalate step by small step, it is easier for an adversary to respond to each step with a response that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alexander Haig | 4/2/1984 | See Source »

...fire with automatic weapons. Three bullets struck Adams in the left arm and upper back. Three other people in the car were wounded, including the driver, who still managed to speed Adams to the hospital. At week's end the Sinn Fein leader appeared to be out of danger. Police arrested three of his alleged attackers barely 300 yards from the scene of the crime. The Ulster Freedom Fighters, an extremist Protestant paramilitary group, later claimed responsibility for the attack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Northern Ireland: Tit for Tat | 3/26/1984 | See Source »

...from under priests like Gutierrez and Sobrino. They probably will only say 'That's his opinion.' " But the Vatican is highly unlikely to leave it at that. Ratzinger, noting that liberation theology "steadily attracts more and more" priests and nuns, declares it to be a "fundamental danger for the faith." A strategy to confront the movement is now, he warns, "urgent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Vatican Warning | 3/26/1984 | See Source »

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