Word: grapeshot
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This time there are fewer illusions and no jaunty warriors or exultant emissaries. Television has brought the world into the galleries and to the White House. The foe is half a globe away, and the destructive forces gathered in the Saudi desert bear no comparisons to the minieball and grapeshot...
...unapologetic about intemperate statements, personality flaws and boastful exaggerations on their resumes. Robertson and Jackson remain carefree riders on the political roller coaster, rarely having to worry about the bumps and twists that have buffeted Gary Hart, Joseph Biden and Michael Dukakis. As other candidates pepper their rivals with grapeshot, these two preacher- politicians continue to have immunity from all but the most tepid criticism...
...aides insisted last week that waiting for an early announcement was like "barking up a gum tree." Yet the Prime Minister was not above some unabashed campaigning of her own, rallying the faithful wherever she goes and giving a stream of recent interviews loaded with electoral grapeshot. Most likely, there was a one-woman debate going on at 10 Downing Street, between the Iron Lady who toughs it out to the end and the professional politician who knows a good thing when she sees...
...celebrated siege of Athens' Polytechnic University had provoked a violent clash with the army that helped topple the country's military junta. Now the marchers, 15,000 strong from all political factions, swept through the streets of Athens with a more peaceful aim: to protest a grapeshot series of educational reforms known as Law 815. Trying to play it safe, the conservative government of Premier Constantine Caramanlis had closed the country's seven universities (total enrollment: 100,000). But as it turned out, the students intensified their challenge by staging a takeover of the campuses...
Washington's most serious problem is with its strongest ally, West Germany. Schmidt regards Carter as some kind of misguided zealot. The Chancellor has charged that the President was much too categorical in his SALT proposals, leaving Brezhnev little room for negotiation. Schmidt further feels that Washington's grapeshot human rights drive may be less effective in helping dissenters in Communist countries than would quiet diplomatic pressure in the Kissinger fashion. What deeply concerns him among other things is that deterioration in East-West relations could jeopardize the continuing emigration of ethnic Germans from Poland and the U.S.S.R...