Word: fiascoes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dukakis opposes aid to the rebels in Nicaragua, and has denounced the Reagan Administration's Central American policy as a "fiasco." Dukakis advocates a multilateral approach, joining Central American leaders, to resolve the region's conflicts. He has also been critical of the Reagan Administration's relationship with Panama Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega...
Linebackers: This duo leads Harvard in tackles. Greg Ubert has 49 tackles. Brian Burns has 42. However, this duo must share the blame for the fiasco against Dartmouth. Ubert had six solo tackles against the Big Green...
Washington so far has been trying to play it cool, avoiding the emotionalism that in the past has paralyzed U.S. foreign policy and led to the Iran arms- sale fiasco. Officials sketch a three-part approach. First, the U.S. will talk informally with anyone, anytime. "We keep in touch," says National Security Adviser Colin Powell; he will not say with whom. Second, Washington will officially negotiate only with an "authoritative" representative of the Tehran government, and that stage has not yet been reached. Says one State Department official: "We hear from people who say they know somebody who knows somebody...
...Myers fiasco was a personal disaster, and there was no question that a likely gold medalist had been lost to the team. Still, at Seoul, the U.S. would have the smallest world beater in Evans; one of the largest and most awesome in Biondi; and, unless one of the East Germans has managed to grow gills, by far the spookiest in Berkoff, the vanishing backstroker. Bring on that Korean water...
Even Dukakis' adversaries do not claim that the harbor fiasco is the result of his insensitivity to the environment. "Dukakis is decent, honest, intelligent, and he believes in process," says former State Judge Paul Garrity, whose rulings eventually spurred the state to begin cleaning up. "But if the process isn't there, he won't act." Alden Raine, Dukakis' director of economic development, excuses this lack of leadership: "To place the blame on the Governor is to assume that the other pieces were in place to clean up the harbor, which they were...