Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Spectacular!" crowed James Johnson, Walter Mondale's acting campaign chairman, relieved that the front runner had not fallen. "It makes Gary Hart the emerging dark-horse candidate," declared his deputy campaign manager, David Landau. The debate transformed Jesse Jackson from "black candidate" to "national candidate," claimed Jackson's national-issues coordinator, Frank Watkins. John Glenn's organization quickly turned the adulatory reactions of six New Hampshire voters into a radio ad. A little too quickly: the voters' reactions had been taped before the debate. The ad had to be pulled off the air and redone...
Mozambique still receives most of its consumer goods and industrial supplies from its hated neighbor to the south. Though the number of Mozambicans working in South Africa's mines has fallen by 65% since 1975, some 50,000 are still laboring there, bringing in $70 million every year...
...drift in Common Market policies was criticized last week in a speech by French Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson, who warned that the European Community "has fallen far short of its original objectives" and faces difficulties that could destroy it. Cheysson said the Community lacks "cohesion and solidarity" and has had too little impact on international events...
Alas, by 1983, Nigeria was suffering from the worldwide oil glut and the resulting drop in prices. Its oil revenues had fallen to about $10 billion a year, while its foreign debt rose to an estimated $15 billion. After his reelection, Shagari seemed determined to deal more forcefully with corruption and the growing economic problems than he had before. He created a new ministry charged with rooting out corrupt officials. Just two days before the coup, he delivered an austerity budget aimed at reducing the government's capital spending by 30% and imports by 40%. The belt-tightening was greeted...
...notice anyone immediately behind the trio. As Aquino began to crumple, some one, I believe it was Mr. Galman, was warded off from the front of the group [as it headed toward the van] by the soldier wearing sun glasses, the left escort. Mr. Aquino had fallen forward to the pavement. Mr. Galman was standing at the rear corner of the van nearest me, his arms fully raised and holding a gun with two hands. It appeared someone was holding his wrists. The left escort fired at Galman from a squatting position near the body [of Aquino]. Galman...