Word: fiascos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...campaign was merely a political tactic, not a necessity of national security. This week, the president gave credence to their harshest complaints. In deciding to give up the protection of the Rose Garden for the glaring publicity of the last few primaries, Carter claims, curiously, that after the fiasco of his failed rescue attempt this week, the crisis is "more manageable...
...alliance. A senior Common Market official was despairing: "It's not what we thought Americans would do. It's something you would expect from the Italian army." What is especially worrisome, said a British official, is that "if we were not told about this fiasco, might we not also be kept in the dark about something bigger and more dangerous...
...worse I do, the more popular I get," mused President John F. Kennedy, baffled by his spurt in the polls after the Bay of Pigs fiasco. Can Jimmy Carter make political gains from a military misfortune? The consensus among political experts is that he may in the short run because the country tends to rally round a President in a crisis, even a crisis that he has caused. But on reflection the voters are likely to conclude that once again Carter has failed. Said Theodore Lowi, a political science professor at Cornell: "History has proved that presidential support always improves...
Presumably, Castro also decided that the evacuation would turn world attention away from the Peruvian embassy fiasco and focus the spotlight instead on Washington's scramble to cope with the flood of refugees. In this, Castro appeared to be successful. "He sure is clever at making his problem our problem," said one White House aide...
From the outset, it has been an article of faith with Thatcher that Britain, by exercising monetary discipline and confidence, can recapture its old place "in the first division." Not since the Suez fiasco of 1956 has Britain taken the lead in any major problems beyond its postcolonial concerns. Now Lord Carrington, backed by Thatcher, has proposed initiatives to neutralize Afghanistan and to bring Europe into Middle East negotiations if the Egyptian-Israeli talks on Palestinian autonomy bog down. When President Carter called for support from America's Western European allies for sanctions against Iran, Thatcher...