Word: elliotts
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...cocaine flown into the U.S. from Colombia and further south. Unless De la Madrid acts soon, Washington fears, official corruption, already widespread, will become even more deeply rooted. "How long does it take for drug dealers to penetrate the government?" asks Assistant Secretary of State Elliott Abrams. "It doesn't take a month, but it doesn't take ten years either...
This time, however, the Reagan Administration decided that Helms had gone too far. Undercutting U.S. policy while visiting a foreign country is "indefensible," said Elliott Abrams, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American affairs. After Pinochet announced his intention to remain as President of Chile until 1997, Abrams argued that Helms might be "playing into the hands of the Communists" by supporting "an indefinite extension of military rule rather than a transition to democracy." Abrams said that he had approved Barnes' attendance at the funeral. State Department Spokesman Bernard Kalb pointedly described Barnes as "one of the most experienced...
Elizabeth Campbell Elliott, Bachrach's campaign manager, attributed the increase in popularity to a $100,000 media campaign that started in mid-May, after the other polls had already been taken. Television and radio spots depict the candidate as a determined underdog...
...view of many editors, including Seigenthaler, the Abbas interview did not pass that test. Abbas uttered only predictable propaganda, offering little that was new or surprising. "I didn't see anything that was remarkable or enlightening," says George Cotliar, managing editor of the Los Angeles Times. Comments Karen Elliott House, foreign editor of the Wall Street Journal: "We are not in the business of spreading propaganda but in the business of analyzing why things happen and what they mean. I don't see (the interview) as a great journalistic coup...
...Elliott Abrams '69 argued that there is no alternative to supporting the Nicaraguan Contras in their fight to overthrow the Sandinista government "unless you suggest that it's okay to have a communist country in Central America subverting its neighbors...