Word: ground
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...Jackson who held its heart. There was a mood of almost religious rapture in the Omni Tuesday night as the preacher restated the riffs and rhapsodies that had carried him to within sight of the mountaintop. His praise for the Massachusetts Governor and his crowning metaphor of "common ground" was all that Dukakis could have hoped. But in ceding the spotlight, Dukakis became almost a spectator at his own coronation -- an image that he underlined when he said that watching his own nomination on television was a "little bit like a play...
Power has its pushy privileges. Mario Cuomo, who is even more imperious in public than in private, strode into the Hyatt Regency Hotel, where Dukakis and his staff were in residence. The lobby, ground zero for mover-and-shaker watching, was as jammed as a Bloomingdale's white sale, and the elevators were as slow as a Bill Clinton nominating speech. New York's Governor stood impatiently in a crowd waiting for an elevator. When the doors opened, loyal functionaries cleared a path and commandeered the car -- a singular act in this city of practiced charm and charming impracticality...
...port city of Basra during the winter offensive of 1986-87. Despite Iranian human-wave assaults, Iraqi defenders managed to hold on to it. Iran's confidence was further shaken by two Iraqi tactics early this year. One was extending the range of Iraq's Soviet-made Scud-B ground-to- ground missiles so they could reach Iranian cities. Between February and April, in the so-called war of the cities, Iraq launched 160 missile attacks on urban areas in Iran, terrifying the civilian population. The other shocker was Iraq's use in March of chemical weapons at Halabja...
Administration officials quickly claimed that Iran's policy reversal vindicated the decision by the U.S. and other Western naval powers to build up their gulf fleets. Iraq's performance on the ground doubtless had more to do with last week's decision than anything that happened at sea, but the presence of Western navies did provide a show of resolve directed against Iranian aggressiveness. In the end, said Thomas McNaugher, a gulf-state expert at the Brookings Institution in Washington, the "interests of Iran and Iraq and everybody else just fell into place." For U.N. mediators in the coming months...
Atlanta becomes a display of unprecedented harmony as the nominee and Jesse Jackson find common ground. How the concordat of cooperation was hammered out. -- Moments of high comedy at the convention, from TelePrompTer snafus to VIPS locked out of the Omni. -- Former Defense Secretary James Schlesinger critiques Dukakis' foreign policy...