Word: foe
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Observers feel that Specter could be upset by Underdog Congressman Bob Edgar, who trailed his foe by about 18 points in a recent poll. An unabashed liberal who would increase social spending and reduce military appropriations by scrapping the MX missile and Star Wars, Edgar, a Methodist minister who combines a genteel manner with tough rhetoric, attacks the President and the Senator in the same breath. "Ronald Reagan wanted to take away your Social Security benefits back in 1981," he tells a group of senior citizens. "I was outraged . . . But Arlen Specter thought it was a good idea...
Drugs and drug dealers, on the other hand, may seem like a more manageable enemy. Moreover, the drug culture is a perfect foe since it reminds Reagan of long-haired "hoodlums" burning draftcards and threatening the security of the wealthy business classes who support him so fervently...
...course, this is not the first time that Reagan has attempted to create a foe to explain away this country's social malaise. Only last spring the paradigm of evil was terrorism. But a few months and a couple of bombings of Libya later, he has come to realize that all of his empty bellowings will do nothing to stop TWA flights from being hijacked or Paris from becoming a veritable graveyard...
...heat generated by both television lights and the querulous exchanges between wrought-up Senators and bristling Administration spokesmen. Precise and undramatic, Lugar, 54, comes across more like a fusty academic than a hands-on vote getter. He is regarded as thoughtful -- as opposed to purely brainy -- by friend and foe alike, a quality that stands out among legislators given to impulse. Always dressed in shades of dark gray and blue ("Once I owned a green suit," he says, as if surprised by the recollection), he seems somehow smaller than his 5 ft. 10 in., 160 lbs. Yet his intellectual weight...
...some areas, Burger and Scalia are close. Burger has been a foe of elaborate procedural safeguards for the criminally accused, and so has Scalia. But in many areas of the law, the effect of last week's appointments is simply unknowable. There is no doubt, however, that Reagan is hoping to provide Rehnquist with reinforcements. "The selection of Rehnquist is a selection for the future," contends Sheldon Goldman, professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. "The Reagan Administration is counting on being able to make another one or two appointments before the President's term ends...