Word: fiascos
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...blame for the Lebanon fiasco lies with Shultz. People think that he never fully understood how far the Syrians were willing to go to get their way. Shultz never showed the requisite leadership to stop the steamroll of events, and, in that sense, deserves to be faulted for the loss of the U.S.'s strategic and moral stature. Now, as the first faint cries for his resignation are heard, the heretofore "cool teamplayer" is starting to flail at Congress on Central American policy. A drum beat of Foggy Bottom corridor criticism of the secretary is starting to creep into...
...there's no denying the registration game is trickier for the GOP. Most polls, for instance, show that two-thirds of newly registered voters would support the Democrats-a statistic that reflects the deep disaffection that several minority groups have for Reagan. Voter registration could be the campaign fiasco that leaves egg all over the collective GOP face, which is why Republicans are spending so much money for relatively few votes. But they are treading carefully. The Republicans and their allies especially the Chamber of Commerce and the Moral Majority-want to tap only those constituencies they are after...
Roone Arledge is losing money through his teeth these days. The first week of the 1984 Winter Olympics was a television ratings fiasco. This year's audiences are 50 percent smaller than four years ago, and ABC, which carries the games, has been continually swamped by competition from other networks...
...event, the icemen will not soon forget last night's fiasco at the Garden. Again, it was no contest from start to finish...
...personnel lost in the sinking of the fleet at Pearl Harbor? He definitely did not think so, even though he stationed them in Hawaii. F.D.R. summarily relieved the local commanders. Without question, they were guilty of not adhering to the standing operation procedure prescribed in military doctrine. This Beirut fiasco was a "failure of command" beginning at company or higher unit level...