Word: leader
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Tiananmen massacre was under the personal command of his brother Yang Baibing. If Deng, through loss of face or life, ceased to rule China, Yang Shangkun might attempt to maneuver himself into the leadership of the Central Military Commission and replace Deng as China's most eminent leader...
What a difference two days make. George Bush rode into Brussels last Monday the "Nowhere President," criticized as a dithering leader without vision, too passive, too reactive, too unimaginative to compete with Mikhail Gorbachev. In town to celebrate NATO's 40th anniversary, Bush seemed destined to preside over a nasty family quarrel, if not the alliance's demise...
...then Bush scored what he proudly called "a double hit." Just as he had awakened his sleepy presidential campaign with a socko speech at the 1988 Republican Convention, he rose from his four-month presidential lethargy to launch an initiative that wrested the arms-control initiative from the Soviet leader and averted a bruising collision among the allies. The sigh of relief echoed from West Germany to Washington, where Bush's lackadaisical leadership was sowing seeds of Government paralysis. Two days later, Bush rode out of Brussels the man of the moment...
...family split into feuding factions. One of her sons, Pedro Joaquin Jr., 37, was until recently a leader of the Nicaraguan resistance, which directs the military insurgency of the contra rebels. Her other son, Carlos Fernando, 33, is editor in chief of the Sandinista daily Barricada, and has run editorials calling his brother a traitor. Daughter Cristiana, 35, is a director of La Prensa. Her sister Claudia, 36, was the Sandinista Ambassador to Costa Rica until last year. The private pain of the Chamorro family is a microcosm of Nicaragua's national agony. And Dona Violeta is the prism through...
...becoming a tool for character assassination? Pennsylvania Congressman William Gray, the leading candidate to replace Coelho, had to ask Attorney General Dick Thornburgh to investigate the source of an apparently unfounded rumor that the FBI was looking into whether he had a no-show employee on his payroll. Majority leader Tom Foley, the likely successor to Wright, was asked to assure a group of conservative Democrats that nothing in his background would embarrass them...