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Once nominated as Vice President, Nixon was assigned to play hatchet man on "communism and corruption" while Eisenhower remained statesmanlike. Nixon was all too eager to comply. He described Democratic nominee Adlai Stevenson as one who "holds a Ph.D. from ((Secretary of State Dean)) Acheson's College of Cowardly Communist Containment...
Nonetheless, a close aide of Engler's described him as "ecstatic" at his plan's victory, and a referendum-night party at the Sheraton Lansing Hotel < turned into a noisy rally for his re-election. For 20 years something of a Republican hatchet man in the state legislature, he risked a rap for callousness during his first gubernatorial year when he abruptly eliminated the state's nonfamily-welfare program: the following winter, several former recipients froze to death, homeless. Last week's deal, which was supported by Detroit's mayor Dennis Archer, a liberal Democrat, made Engler look more statesmanlike...
Secretary of Labor Robert B. Reich, must have been a soothsayer in another life and is certainly a visionary in this one (last year's New Republic hatchet-job notwithstanding), has succinctly encapsulated the terms of the new debate. In his 1991 book "The Work Of Nations" Reich observed that "the real economic challenge facing the United States in the years ahead--the same as that facing every other nation--is to increase the potential value of what its citizens can add to the global economy, by enhancing their skills and capacities and by improving their means of linking those...
Almost certainly it will not lead to peace anytime soon. Despite the example of Arabs and Israelis in the Middle East and blacks and whites in South Africa, the 1.5 million inhabitants of Ulster seem unable to bury the hatchet unless it is in one another. Part of the reason is that despite the mounting death toll, the problem of Northern Ireland is not considered sufficiently important to hold the attention of governments in London and Dublin, where the matter of Ulster and Irish partition must ultimately be decided. "The British," says Tony Benn, a Labour M.P. in London...
...taught Expos for eight years with Richard Marius. I worked for him as a preceptor and have skied with him. Nonetheless, I shall rise above all that to respond to that hatchet-job of an article--"Expos Out of Control Under Marius...