Word: foe
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Extremely well organized and prepared, the President targets his audiences carefully. In Boston, with Kennedy at his side, Carter appears before an audience of some 500 elderly people and effectively portrays Reagan as a foe of Social Security, Medicare, health insurance and unemployment insurance. The old people applaud. To New Jersey labor leaders, Carter says Reagan opposes labor law reform. Scoffs Carter: "Ronald Reagan says unemployment compensation is a free paid vacation for freeloaders." In a state where the race is close, but a must win for Carter, the labor leaders nod and nudge each other...
...champion of Latin America's poor and oppressed, and, by proxy, of Argentina's 6,000 desaparecidos-"those who disappeared," most either kidnaped or liquidated in the Argentine military's harsh, four-year-long antiterrorism drive. As such, Pérez Esquivel is an avowed nonviolent foe of the ruling junta in Buenos Aires. As a result of last week's Nobel honors, he is now, irony of ironies, on the payroll of a government he has long opposed. Under an obscure law passed in 1977, probably in the belief that the country's greatest...
THERE ARE LOTS OF SWORDS in this Macbeth. Daggers, too. Those crazy Scots eat with them, greet with them, play with them and, of course, kill with them. Swords everywhere you turn, and you can never be sure who will show up next with one, friend or foe, ghost or wife...
...Israeli Arabs' pilgrimage was a small but stunning triumph over the dislocations of war and the sectarian antagonisms of the Middle East. To begin with, the buses were supplied by Israel's implacable foe Iran, which must have needed the vehicles for the war effort back home. Forced to bypass Iraq, which provides the most direct route to Jordan, the drivers headed north to Turkey. There they were delayed for a week because the border was closed. Finally allowed to pass through Turkey, they were held up for four more days by the Syrians. As Iranians...
...college town of Eugene (pop. 103,500). In three terms, he has built a reputation as a friend of the environment, having sponsored the 1978 Endangered American Wilderness Act, which increased the acreage of protected lands like the 168,000-acre Kalmiopsis area east of Eugene. He is a foe of nuclear power and of the use of herbicides in the Northwest's evergreen forests...