Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reporters have not been allowed into the camps, so it is impossible to verify commanders' claims that morale is high, discipline is largely intact and the desire to fight on is strong. A small number have sold their weapons to raise cash, but for now most contras seem content to wait in the camps, living off the rice and beans that continue to arrive courtesy...
Most are expected to abandon the fight if U.S. funding is not renewed. Civilian leader Alfredo Cesar hopes to return to Nicaragua by early next year, some say to run as the opposition candidate in the 1990 presidential elections. But Cesar is not well known within Nicaragua, and the Sandinistas, warns one diplomat, may dismiss his effort as "a blinding irrelevance...
...rebels, especially the field commanders, will probably be allowed to settle in the U.S. The more hardened foot soldiers may dig in for the long haul. Some observers in Tegucigalpa estimate that at least 2,000 rebels with scores to settle and long experience in guerrilla warfare intend to fight...
Ailes saw his job as that of a fight manager animating his contender with energizing drafts of hatred for the foe. Before Reagan's second debate with Mondale in 1984 (Ailes was called in because Reagan had done so poorly in the first one), Ailes sent the President into the ring with these words: "When you see Mondale, remember, this man had twelve years as Senator and Vice President, and it was a mess. And what he wants to do is get your job so that he can undo everything you spent your entire life doing...
...reporting, but the format will be slightly less stuffy. Announcers will address correspondents with more informality, as in "Tony, thanks very much." Colloquialisms are also being sprinkled into the news. The clash in Poland between the government and the banned Solidarity union, for instance, was uncharacteristically called "a bareknuckle fight...