Word: leader
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hamilton epitomized the Democratic anguish. He starred with his morality lectures during the Iran-contra hearings and has continued to be a scold about virtue in public life. He has been oddly silent on Wright, his own leader, while admitting the questions he gets back home in his district are becoming more unsettling and more numerous. "Letting the process run," as he puts it to his constituents, obviously has its limits. We may be close this week...
...fifth -- and by no means final -- time last week, the Gorbachev schedule was changed to keep as much distance as possible between the guest and the million Chinese cheering his policies of openness and democratization. When the relaxed and smiling Soviet leader finally made his appearance at 7:30 p.m., he was asked about the demonstrations paralyzing the Chinese capital. "I've seen the students," said a bemused Gorbachev. "But perhaps not as many as you have...
...viewers back in the U.S.S.R. saw footage of the protesters only on the day their leader left China, and even then the events were presented as two completely different stories. During Gorbachev's stay, Soviet television had blacked out the demonstrations. However, within minutes after Gorbachev boarded the plane in Shanghai and headed home, TASS carried its first detailed story on the crisis. What the Soviet press has yet to report, of course, is what Gorbachev, Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze and the other members of the Soviet diplomatic team really thought about their extraordinary visit. Quipped a Soviet journalist...
...government troops moving against a guerrilla post in El Salvador keeps eyeing his watch and asking the commander when he will order the attack. Distracted commander says, "Not yet, not yet." Correspondent finally explodes, "Goddammit, I've a bird ((satellite feed to the network)) at 6 o'clock!" The leader, understanding perfectly, orders his attack immediately...
...fool around with Ford, or Indy. In the film's prologue, young Jones is chased and chastened by a band of scavengers. The gang's leader tells Indy, "You lost today, kid. But that doesn't mean you have to like it." Real-life flashback: when Ford was about young Indy's age, he entered a junior high school where, he recalls, "the favorite recess activity was to take me to the edge of a sharply sloping parking lot, throw me off, wait for me to struggle back to the top, then throw me off again. The entire school would...