Word: easterners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years, Schlafly has battled the liberals--even Republican liberals. In the 1960s, Schlafly was an outspoken critic of Rockefeller Republicans and the Eastern Establishment which once dominated the party. Schlafly was one of the women the press dubbed "little old ladies in tennis shoes" who helped guide Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater to the Republican nomination...
...them." The methods tabloids use to substantiate their sometimes unlikely stories are often ingenious. To prove UFOs have been frolicking in Wisconsin, reporters will wrangle a policeman or pilot to say "Sure." And in a pinch, some editors have been known to put an authority on a subject in Eastern Europe to elude verification...
...defense policy rests. Though he made no mention of the military in his speech to the party plenum last week, Gorbachev has made it clear that he wants the military to shift from an offensive to a defensive posture through such possible moves as withdrawing from forward positions in Eastern Europe. In place of its quest for superiority over the West in numbers of weapons and troops, Gorbachev is demanding that the armed forces make do with a "reasonable sufficiency." To assure success, Gorbachev has reshuffled the military high command and silenced opponents of reform. Last week Foreign Minister Eduard...
...weapons platform -- underpowered, poorly built and laced with dangerously primitive electrical wiring. Soviet jet engines still burn out early and guzzle more fuel than comparable U.S. power plants. The Soviets continue to fly 1950s-era propeller-driven Bear-H reconnaissance bombers on patrols off Alaska and the U.S.'s Eastern Seaboard. New jet fighters like the MiG-29, a downsized version of the 14-year-old U.S. F-15, leave skeptics unimpressed. After inspecting a MiG-29 in the Soviet Union, a delegation of U.S. experts found the plane's electronics and fabrication to be second-rate. In London...
Europe: Christopher Redman London: Christopher Ogden, Anne Constable Paris: Jordan Bonfante, Adam Zagorin Bonn: James O. Jackson Rome: Cathy Booth Eastern Europe: Kenneth W. Banta Moscow: John Kohan, Ann Blackman Jerusalem: Johanna McGeary Cairo: Dean Fischer, David S. Jackson Nairobi: James Wilde Johannesburg: Bruce W. Nelan New Delhi: Ross H. Munro Beijing: Sandra Burton Hong Kong: William Stewart, Jay Branegan Tokyo: Barry Hillenbrand, Kumiko Makihara Ottawa: Peter Stoler Mexico City: John Borrell, John Moody Rio de Janeiro: Laura Lopez