Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dukakis is the guy who treks across the country talking about honesty, integrity and responsible leadership. But it's not much more than talk. Mike Dukakis is like the tough little kid in the schoolyard who brags a lot but won't stick around to prove himself in a fight...
Also last week, Alfredo Gutierrez Marquez, the new Attorney General, shocked law enforcement officials at home and abroad when he suggested that the only way to fight cocaine trafficking was to legalize the drug and possibly negotiate with the cartel. "The fight against drug dealing is useless," Gutierrez asserted. "It's time we stopped playing the fool." Gutierrez's proposal reflects the desperation Colombian officials feel as the drug lords gain strength. More and more Colombian lawyers refuse judicial appointments, fearing they will become marked...
...cartel pays for each 2.5 acres planted in the leaf. The local poseros, or processors, who grind the leaves into paste, are paid even better, which enables them to . acquire four-wheel-drive vehicles and color television sets. "It is an unbalanced and unfair fight," says Juan Carlos Duran, Bolivia's Interior and Justice Minister. "Drug kingpins work in terms of millions of dollars, while we have to do it in terms of cents...
Willis Robertson was a states'-righter opposing Bush's bold civil rights views. When Gore led the fight to expand the federal highway system, Robertson fought him. "We used to get together at prayer breakfasts," remembers Gore. "Willis used to tell good stories. He was a man of good humor...
...might be the Democratic front runner after Super Tuesday? Try Jesse Jackson. -- Voices from the South assess the candidates. -- What Ed Meese cannot remember. -- A fight over campaign reform leads to a filibuster -- and a Senator' s arrest. -- AIDS has led to a new wave of violence against homosexuals...