Word: neutrality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...million member federation's executive council unanimously approved an ambitious but potentially risky plan to endorse a presidential candidate as early as December 1983. This is before the primaries get under way and is a dramatic repudiation of organized labor's traditional habit of remaining politically neutral until the national conventions nominate candidates. The change would guard against a 1984 collapse of labor unity. In the last general election, 44% of union voters picked Reagan despite their leaders' endorsement of Carter...
...reweaving of history is so canny that it is sometimes difficult to tell where the tear ends and the mend begins. The duke, for instance, did visit Germany in 1937, where he took tea with Field Marshal Goring and was photographed with Hitler. And he did lounge in neutral Portugal, as if to wait out the hostilities, until Winston Churchill learned of a Nazi kidnap plot and ordered British troops to provide an escort to the Bahamas. But the additional malice is pure Findley: British commandos raid the duke's quarters, only to find the royal presence crashing through...
Theoretically, the Administration was correct to hew a neutral line between Iran and Iraq, but changing circumstances call for a defter touch than the U.S. has displayed thus far. Says Richard Helms, a former U.S. Ambassador to Iran (and onetime head of the Central Intelligence Agency): "Now is the time to come to the aid of our moderate Arab friends...
...Europe should be out of it, why people should be left out of any constructive effort. Very frankly, the image of the U.S. is really tarnished. It is not the image one would ideally have liked for the major power that is supposed to be neutral. The image of America is that of Israel's benefactor, Israel's supporter, right or wrong. This could all be changed if the U.S. opened up to the rest of the world and sought the world's cooperation in resolving this problem...
...that waving a red flag has on a bull: it only provokes him to still more outrageous behavior. Also, Haig believes that since the Israeli invasion has smashed the military power of the Palestine Liberation Organization, U.S. diplomacy has a chance not only to re-create an independent and neutral Lebanon but move toward a general Middle East peace based on settlement of the longest-festering problem of all: the aspirations of the Palestinians living in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. In his view, an Israel freed of fears about P.L.O. terrorism would be more willing...