Word: exploiter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carter largely failed to exploit Ford's slip during the debate. But next day he called Ford's remarks "absolutely ridiculous," and his staff considered preparing a series of radio commercials to be beamed primarily at ethnic communities. Chortled Carter Political Director Landon Butler: "We couldn't have picked a better ethnic coordinator than Ford...
...undertake in the best of times, let alone just seven weeks before a U.S. presidential election. But, as Kissinger argues, the risk of doing nothing is much greater. Unchecked, southern Africa will almost certainly drift into racial war. Whether the Soviet Union or any other foreign power could exploit such a phenomenon for long is doubtful, but the potential for short-term mischief making is awesome. Small wonder then that Kissinger is eager for one more crusade before he quits...
...born-again interest in political action will benefit Carter, of course. Paul Henry, professor at the conservative Protestant Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Mich., and Republican chairman in Ford's home county, argues that "Carter has been able to exploit the religious issue because he speaks the language more freely." But Henry and other evangelicals believe that many of the conservative Protestants' votes will eventually go to Episcopalian Ford, who professes to be something of an evangelical and whose son Michael attends the evangelical Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in South Hamilton, Mass. Ford has wooed the conservative Christian...
...Ford assembled John Connally, who had turned down the job of heading the Republican National Committee, Vice President Nelson Rockefeller and Dole for strategy sessions. Connally later told newsmen that he has detected "fear" and "uncertainty" about Carter, and Ford quickly seconded him, indicating that he will try to exploit this feeling. Connally also made light of Ford's gap in the polls, declaring that it was "no hill for a stepper." Ford added that he believed the American people wanted "somebody with experience" conducting foreign policy, not "somebody whose name they didn't know a year...
...during the past 40 years must have threatened Franco's commissars. But a historical show entitled "Spain, Artistic Avant-Garde and Social Reality 1936-76," suggests that it was otherwise, that after the moment of heroic protest symbolized by Picasso's Guernica, the regime itself started to exploit, for its own benefit, the success of the Spanish avantgarde...