Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...risks in proposing the sale were high. A senior State Department official asserted that Senate approval of the AWACS sale "was a victory [only] because it averted a defeat. The downside was big, but the upside is small." Indeed, the very fact that the Administration risked so much to gain so little pointed to serious flaws in the way it formulates diplomatic strategy...
...Furthermore, he complained, the Administration was not sufficiently aware of the danger of anti-Semitism in the U.S. Presumably he had in mind the warning, expressed privately by some Administration lobbyists to Senators and then openly by Republicans Mark Hatfield of Oregon and William Cohen of Maine, that defeat of the AWACS sale might cause a backlash of public opinion against Israel and its American Jewish supporters...
...opponents with his defection. Said he: "A vote for the sale is a vote for my President and his successful conduct of foreign policy." Along with Jepsen came his conservative Iowa colleague Grassley, who met with the President on Monday. Said he: "I saw the prospect of what a defeat for Reagan would do for peace in the Middle East...
...Senator at the end of the soli tary ride in the White House family eleva tor. Said Grassley, one of the converts: "My gosh. Reagan was so folksy and down home and relaxed in the armchair in his private study. He was willing to answer all my questions. A defeat would have been a blow to his leadership...
There was ABC's young Ted Koppel, looking puzzled under his mound of neatly mowed hair, trying to get his correspondents to explain how come certain defeat had been snatched from the jaws of certain victory, without proper notification to the networks...