Word: daniels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega Saavedra made the rounds in New York City last week during an eight-day visit to the U.S., it was easy to forget that he is the man who just a month ago called Ronald Reagan "a new Hitler." Instead, the seasoned comandante played the polished politician, while he embarked on a campaign to win American hearts and minds. During meetings with political, church and press groups, he answered questions with some candor, trying, though not always successfully, to steer clear of revolutionary jargon. Appearing before the United Nations Security Council, he appealed for U.N. endorsement...
Resistance to the appointment, President Reagan assured a political rally in Miami last week, had come from a "little lynch mob." Some "little lynch mob": half the U.S. Senate, backed by a phalanx of other politicians and legal scholars, all opposing the President's nomination of Archconservative Daniel Manion to a federal judgeship. The final vote of the Senators was 49 to 49. The roll call came on the question of whether to reconsider an earlier vote, one that would have been 47 to 47 but tipped 48 to 46 for confirmation only because the rules forced Senate Democratic Leader...
Right against this one, through some editor's sense of irony, was a story with quite the opposite message. It described Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega Saavedra's efforts to win further condemnation in the World Court for U.S. aid to the rebels known as Contras, who are avowedly trying to overthrow his government...
Officials said yesterday that Sen. Daniel P.Moynihan (D-NY), a past K-School Godkin Lecturer,will speak at an evening forum on September 3,entitled "America's Poor: What is to be Done." TheSchool has not yet confirmed speakers for thefollowing night's panel, "Roosevelt to Reagan:Presidential Leadership from...
...Managua. After diplomats began arriving for work, he entered the building and requested asylum. Espinoza, a critic of the Sandinista regime, apparently feared arrest. Such concerns are widespread in Nicaragua these days. Since the House passed legislation to give $100 million in aide to forces fighting the Sandinistas, President Daniel Ortega Saavedra has been cracking down on a wide range of opponents...