Word: friends
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...commercial was produced by Pellegrino's old friend Stan Freberg, 58, for two decades a master of light satire in advertising. Among his clients: Sunsweet prunes ("Today the pits, tomorrow the wrinkles") and Pacific Air Lines ("Most people are scared witless of flying...
...should all be aware of the supreme importance of free world trade. It is not a specific German-American problem. It is the Japanese who should open their market. I have suggested to my friend (Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro) Nakasone that we engage in genuine competition. I am not afraid of the Japanese. They don't have any more gray cells than we do. A return to protectionism would have disastrous consequences...
DIED. Sarah Tilghman Hughes, 88, diminutive (5 ft. 1 in.), outspokenly liberal Dallas federal district judge who became the only woman ever to swear in a U.S. President when Lyndon Johnson, an old friend, summoned her to officiate aboard Air Force One after John Kennedy's assassination in 1963; of the effects of a stroke; in Dallas...
Reagan will receive a warm reception in Lisbon, his last stop. Prime Minis ter Mario Soares, a passionate anti-Communist, considers himself a "very good friend" and has resolutely defended U.S. policy in Central America. Aside from talks with Soares, Reagan is scheduled to address the Portuguese parliament. While the White House is comfortable with Portugal's politics, it is uneasy about security arrangements; some 400 U.S. agents are reportedly being brought in to help with the largest security operation ever attempted by Portugal. On May 10, after viewing a horse show at the Queluz palace, an undoubtedly weary traveler...
Republicans swatted their House leader Robert Michel for being defeatist on contra aid. Reagan bashed Congress for "surrendering" to Communists. USIA Director Charles Wick, a close Reagan friend, zapped his old buddy for wanting to lay a wreath at the Bitburg cemetery. Jewish groups continued to denounce his German itinerary. Reagan has been a great booster of the military, but that did not stop the American Legion from getting in some licks about Bitburg...