Word: honored
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...doubly ironic that the Institute of Politics of the Kennedy School earlier in March saw fit to honor one of these stories with an award for "best political journalism...
...killing?" The OAS asked them, "What are your revolutionary goals?" They told them democracy, pluralistic society, free trade, freedom of religion. But among the revolutionaries there was an organization that had existed before the revolution--the Sandinistas, a Communist organization. The man whom they honor, Sandino, he said he was a Communist. (Augusto Cesar Sandino, assassinated in 1934, was a guerrilla leader and nationalist who in fact was not a Communist.) They ousted their other allies in the revolution, and then they established a totalitarian Communist regime, the same process that Castro employed in taking over Cuba...
Rather than increase the level of violence, Administration critics ask, why not try diplomacy? The Administration retorts that it has tried ten times in the past but that the Nicaraguans are not interested. Nor is there any reason to believe that the Sandinistas would honor any agreements any more than they honored their pledges just after the revolution to permit political pluralism and democracy...
...strip it to the bone. Leading the attack, of course, is the Antichrist. Making horrible little humming and clucking noises, he rips through my story, eyebrows galloping wildly across the unnatural expanse of his forehead. Each mark he makes is a slap in the face, a stain on my honor...
Javits was one of the last of the now vanishing breed of liberal Republicans. His minority status within his party prevented him from ever attaining a place inside its congressional leadership, and possibly from becoming the first Jewish candidate for Vice President, an honor he openly sought before the 1968 election. Through force of intellect and formidable work habits, however, the quintessential outsider became, in his words, a "man of the Senate" who won the respect of political supporters and detractors alike. Said Ronald Reagan last week: "Especially in foreign relations--his chief abiding interest--Senator Javits served our country...