Word: establishing
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Bush and his advisers still haven't solved their major remaining problem: how to move cleanly but loyally away from Reagan and establish Bush's credentials as a forceful, independent leader. Traveling to such secondary media markets as Evansville, Ind., and Lima, Ohio, last week, Bush was pursued by questions about Iran-contra, Ed Meese, the trade-bill veto and the Administration's lackluster civil rights record. In each case, the Vice President swallowed hard and forcefully stuck with the boss. That can't continue indefinitely. "Reagan knows that Bush must eventually cement his own relationship with the American people...
...most + prominent and least apologetic figures to name former Communist colleagues before the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) when it was investigating the party's activities in show business. In the '60s he would absorb much of the blame for the failed first attempt to establish a repertory theater at New York City's Lincoln Center and amaze himself, among others, by becoming a best-selling novelist (The Arrangement...
...cellblock. Delegate Dalila claimed that all the pavilion's inmates belong to the "authentic" Peruvian Communist Party, which is how Senderistas see themselves. These true believers disdain both the Soviet Union, which they consider to be as imperialist as the U.S., and today's China. Their goal is to establish a workers' state along the lines of Mao Zedong's China. "We believe in armed struggle to take power," said Dalila. "We will fight generations to take it, and we are ready to die if we have to." They are also ready to kill. The Senderistas are said to have...
...whole, which imports 37% of its daily consumption. Energy Secretary John Herrington, on a seven-nation swing through Southeast Asia, was inspired to lecture non-OPEC countries that the Reagan Administration was opposed to any manipulation of the price of oil. He told TIME, "The efforts to establish a worldwide cartel will end in failure...
...undergraduates, Peter Gray '91 and WodenTeachout '91, also received awards at the dinnerfor their proposal to establish an adolescent andcounseling center in Cambridge's Portuguesecommunity. The two freshmen were the firstrecipients of a grant from the Julio DelvalleMemorial Fund...