Word: ill
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...York's Republican Senator Alfonse D'Amato may be considered a lightweight on serious affairs of state, but when it comes to taking care of constituents, he is in a class by himself. After narrowly capturing the seat of the highly respected but terminally ill Senator Jacob Javits in 1980, the "Pothole Senator" easily won re-election in 1986 as a first-rate fixer who answers phone calls and delivers goodies to the home front. Said an admiring colleague: "He works harder than any Congressman...
Memere's, a Louisiana-style restaurant in Oak Park, Ill., has a loyal clientele for its rattlesnake gumbo. The New Deal restaurant in New York City's Soho is corralling herds of diners with its beaver empanada, kangaroo yakitori and black-buck antelope. Next month Fallow Deer Associates of Hudson, N.Y., will begin supplying health-food stores with prepackaged ground venison and venison burgers...
...overthrowing Noriega in July and October 1988. These plans, the Administration noted, were blocked by some of the same Senators who last month criticized Bush as timid. Members of the Senate intelligence committee, both Democratic and Republican, defend their caution. One congressional source described the October plan as an ill-defined "hodgepodge." Committee spokesman James Currie added that conducting any high-risk covert operation just before a presidential election could unduly and unpredictably influence the election if the operation became public. Said Currie: "No matter what side you're on, you probably don't want to let a U.S. election...
...immediate legalization of the newspaper. Now the government is hounding playwright Vaclav Havel, spokesman for the Charter 77 movement and the country's best-known dissident. Police called Havel in for questioning last Thursday, then allowed him to go to a city hospital when he complained of being ill. Their real purpose was to prevent him from taking part in unofficial celebrations Saturday to mark the 71st anniversary of the founding of the Czechoslovak state...
...meeting was cancelled when Graham's sister became ill...