Word: musts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Instead, it has decided to stay until it either establishes its independence to do what it wants or, more likely, until the Episcopal Church expels its membership. "We must remain within the church to transform it," vows dissident Bishop David Schofield of Fresno, Calif. If separation is forced upon the flock, he states, "we will take the path when it comes." Says Bishop Clarence Pope of Fort Worth, who was elected president of the new Synod: "We are moving one step at a time to test the waters...
...China placed in a common future, a visible symbol of the "one country, two systems" promised when the British crown colony reverts to China in 1997. Last week two enormous black-and-white banners drooped across the tower's facade bearing a grim message in Chinese characters: BLOOD MUST BE PAID WITH BLOOD...
...effective smear has at its core an outrageous charge that would be devastating if true. The author must be both coy and cowardly: he must make the charge stick while retaining deniability. Although Goodin, Atwater's friend of a decade, took the fall, the tactic bore the unmistakable Atwater stamp. As Bush's 1988 campaign manager, Atwater specialized in character assassination: last summer Michael Dukakis was dogged by rumors that he had been treated for depression. In a similar incident in 1980, Atwater was managing the campaign of South Carolina Congressman Floyd Spence when a reporter asked Spence's Democratic...
...democracy seemed likely to make other Soviet-bloc regimes -- already bedeviled by reformist rumblings -- rethink the wisdom of opening up the electoral process. Said a senior Western diplomat in Warsaw: "It may have been the worst possible result for glasnost in Eastern Europe. Every Communist Party in the region must now be aware that democratization is the beginning...
...coming down from the leadership rather than welling up from a grass-roots movement, as in Poland. For another, Gorbachev does not have a large, well-organized opposition to contend with and has ruled out for now the idea of multiparty elections. Yet the debacle of the Polish party must be giving him second thoughts about how much further he can push political democratization without threatening Communist authority...