Word: goldwaterism
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The war, which brought images of bombings and suffering to television audiences everywhere, had stunningly served to portray Israel as the aggressor in its dealings with its Arab neighbors. The massacre involved more than 300 known deaths, and by the weekend it was believed the final total could reach the...
Travelling in Virginia that week, Ford Professor Emeritus of Social Sciences David Riesman '31 visited Mary Baldwin College, a women's school, where "the students were telephoning their fathers on nearby Air Force and Army bases, asking if they should go home." These undergraduates feared that their particular country would...
The Reagan Administration sought to soft-pedal Shanghai II as a document of diplomatic necessity rather than menace. "We have paid particular attention to the needs and interests of Taiwan," said Reagan, as his Administration formally announced, only two days after Shanghai II was issued, the sale of 60 F...
In California, earnestly competent San Diego Mayor Pete Wilson, 48, won the Republican Senate nomination over three Congressmen-Barry Goldwater Jr. (a Senator's son), Pete McCloskey and Robert Dornan-and Maureen Reagan (a presidential daughter). Far ahead in the polls only six months ago, an overconfident Goldwater ran...
Each of the three top candidates has disadvantages. Wilson, 48, a bland moderate with a good eleven-year record as mayor, does not inspire the voters. Well liked in the Bay Area, McCloskey, 54, may be too liberal for Southern California, where conservatives remember his strong stance against the Viet...