Word: napoleonism
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...into football next July. "But I'm having too much fun for second thoughts," he says. "George Brett, Willie Wilson and Hal McRae rag me all day long." Since the football games have begun, he has been following the fortunes of contemporaries like the Los Angeles Raiders' naval attache Napoleon McCallum. But he feels no pangs. "I'm glad it's over and sad it's finished," Jackson says with a soft laugh. "I'll sit up in the stands later this year and watch them play. And I'll smile and say, 'That's the life you didn...
This is not the first time that the State Department has bristled at foreign policy meddling by Helms, whose rhetorical bark outweighs his political bite. In 1984, when the Administration was successfully backing Moderate Jose Napoleon Duarte for the presidency of El Salvador, Helms loudly supported Far Right Candidate Roberto d'Aubuisson, who was reputedly linked to the country's death squads. More recently, Helms has assailed Mexican officials as being corrupt and dealing in drugs when State was trying to cool the cross-border feuding...
...Fourth Stage 3, his return to Los Angeles and his eclectic pastimes. He is an avid collector of Lincoln / memorabilia and Picasso sculptures, an unstinting volunteer for aid to medical research and a nut about the Dodgers. Ahead are projects that have been on hold: TV productions on Picasso, Napoleon and Josephine, and Betty Ford's autobiography, The Times of My Life, are all coming in 1987. But no more civic spectaculars: "I'll pass the torch to the next generation...
...learned that lesson in El Salvador when it realized that a regime dominated by the loudest and fiercest anti-Communists--but hated for its death squads and reactionary economic policies--was not America's best bet. The U.S. rightly decided to back instead a left-of-center politician, Jose Napoleon Duarte, who may seem like a dangerous socialist to conservatives but who is in fact a committed democrat with a popular following...
President Jose Napoleon Duarte labeled the episode "lamentable," and has called on both sides to respect the agreement. General Adolfo Blandon, the chief of staff, has reaffirmed military support for the project. Tenancingo has long been a rebel-controlled zone and is thus a prime candidate for the army's newest counterinsurgency campaign, "United to Reconstruct," which calls for repopulating evacuated war zones with civilians who will be organized into "patriotic self-defense militias." Some people connected with the Tenancingo project predict it is only a matter of time before their town is made a part of the army...