Word: edward
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Certainly there is much public confusion, ignorance and volatility about Central America. A CBS News-New York Times poll in June showed that only 8% knew which sides the U.S. supports in El Salvador and Nicaragua. The better informed were the more opposed to deeper involvement. Edward R. Tufte, a Yale professor of political science, concludes that since Viet Nam, Presidents can no longer count on uninformed loyalty: Reagan's problem is that he suffers from "uninformed skepticism and informed hostility," Yet Democratic presidential candidates are wary of this foreign policy issue, perhaps seeing themselves some...
...Edward Franklin Jackson Jr., 39, a respected Columbus physician, admitted through his lawyer last week that he had raped 22 women and sexually assaulted at least ten others, including a nun, over a four-year period. Jackson's lawyer described the doctor, who is married and has two children, as "two people," dutiful by day and degenerate by night...
...countries and, specifically, the vital U.S. bases at Clark Field and Subic Bay in the Philippines. The problem was doubly sensitive because Reagan is scheduled to visit Manila in November as part of a five-nation Asian tour. Despite calls for its cancellation by individuals including Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts, some Congressmen and Filipino Americans, the visit was still on at week's end. But American officials made no secret of their anxiety over the future of the Philippines. For it was the charismatic Aquino who had personified U.S. hopes that a post-Marcos government could...
...knowledge of the U.S. embassy in Paris and the White House. But Mitch Daniels, executive director of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, denied that the Reagan Administration had any connection with the letter and offered his apology for the incident provoked by Perkins' pen. White House Political Director Edward Rollins condemned the misguided missive, calling it "totally insulting...
...town in a 1928 antique Ford, and went on to include a stop at the old family home (24 Juniper Street). As passionate about political issues as he is on the podium, Bernstein strongly endorsed the nuclear freeze movement in a speech. But the maestro was irked by Senator Edward Kennedy's failure to show up and disappointed that high winds had canceled an 18-minute fireworks display, which may have partly explained his verve in decrying the "lunacy" of the nuclear arms race. Cracked Bernstein afterward: "There had to be some fireworks, and that...