Word: exploited
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Widen the annual economic summit with our principal allies into a strategic-economic summit, so that we can review together more systematically how best to handle the East-West relationship, thus minimizing the differences among ourselves, which the Soviets are always tempted to exploit...
...Democrats, the war jitters could be an opening to exploit. So far, Democrats overall are rated somewhat better at reducing the risk of a nuclear war than are Republicans (32% to 24%), but their edge has dropped slightly since September, when it stood at 34% to 20%. While one-third give Reagan low marks on his ability to keep the country out of war, Mondale is graded poorly in this field by only 9% and Glenn by only 8%. The Democrats consistently outscore the Republicans on social issues like education, the environment and civil rights...
Seaga defeated Manley in 1980 partly because voters had become disenchanted with Manley's growing ties to Cuba and to Jamaica's extreme left. By emphasizing the role of his country's 175 troops in the Caribbean Peace Force, Seaga did his best to exploit lingering fears of the left. Said Carl Stone, Jamaica's leading political pollster: "People see that what happened to [Grenada's assassinated Prime Minister] Maurice Bishop could have happened to Manley: a popular leader encircled, controlled and then eliminated by the radical left...
Sensing an opportunity to exploit intra-alliance tensions, the Soviets sent a number of signals of their own that they might consider the walk-in-the-woods plan if the U.S. put it forward. Even Perle, who had been Nitze's most unrelenting and effective opponent in 1982, strongly suggested to a congressional subcommittee that he might now support walk in the woods if it were made as a final U.S. offer. Weinberger was upset. He had long since become convinced that the U.S. must not, under any circumstances, give up the Pershing...
Ferre supporters made no bones about trying to exploit black distrust of Cubans. Black Radio Announcer Les Brown urged his WEDR listeners to form "a bolt of black thunder" at the polls. He had a taunt for any Cubans who tuned in: "You stole our jobs and you're not going to steal our city." The most dramatic display of raw enmity came when City Commissioner Joe Carollo went on TV to endorse Ferre and abruptly changed his mind, charging a visibly stunned Ferre with running a "racist campaign of hate...