Word: foe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Salvador had appeared in recent years to forget the pursuit of its beloved Archbishop's assassins -- until last week. Speaking to reporters at the Ilopango military air base, President Jose Napoleon Duarte announced that an informant had linked Romero's murder to Roberto d'Aubuisson, Duarte's rightist political foe and a former army major long suspected of masterminding the killing. Said the President: "At this moment, I am telling the people and the world that I have completed my promise to uncover this abominable crime...
Duarte links a bitter foe to an infamous murder. -- Haiti cancels its presidential elections. -- What to do about China' s little emperors...
...peace negotiations, where he should not have been. Then last week he stepped out in front of his own colleagues a bit in his eagerness to announce that Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev would appear before a joint session of Congress in December. A Communist leader, by pedigree a determined foe of democracy, has never appeared in the sacred well of the House, and a goodly number of members from both parties have doubts about Gorbachev, glasnost...
...BIDEN, (D-DE) and Committee Chairman: Let the word go forth, to friend and foe alike, that this session is now called to order. Judge Reinhold, do you have a statement...
...could the most ardent foe of abortion have written Ginsburg off merely for marrying a doctor who performed the procedure a few times before deciding to stop. Similarly, Ginsburg's investment in a cable-television company while he served in the Justice Department was not illegal. By themselves, these incidents could have been shrugged off. Yet taken together, they hardly painted a portrait of the solid, well-grounded individual the public would normally expect on the Supreme Court...