Word: opinionating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Future gains, however, may not come easily, in part because of Labor's poor showing in opinion polls. As the political home for most Asian and black voters, the party has long championed racial equality. But its leaders are fearful of a white backlash if Labor appears to support too many black candidates, some of whom are outspoken radicals associated with the party's "loony left." Racism also poses a formidable electoral hurdle. "In the U.S., at least it is never questioned that blacks are Americans," says Boateng. "The tragedy is that however long you are here, even...
...dismissed questions about whether he should have sought a legal opinion from the State Department or White House about undertaking the operation...
...future. But Peres, who has long believed that Israel should be prepared to trade some of the West Bank and Gaza Strip for a settlement, thinks the time is ripe to enter into negotiations. He also knows that Labor now enjoys a strong lead over Likud in public opinion polls. Shamir, for his part, is determined to hang on to every square inch of the territories Israel has occupied since 1967, even though their 1.46 million residents are 96% Palestinian. He refuses to consider negotiations with the Soviets or indirect dealings with the P.L.O. or Arab governments...
...Soviet Union, people have usually kept their views to themselves. Thus it came as a surprise last week when the Soviet daily Izvestia published an interview based on two public-opinion surveys. The polls were the latest example of Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of glasnost, or openness...
Despite these shifts in public opinion, we are not likely to return to the isolation we practiced before the Second World War. Our stakes abroad are now too high to make that policy feasible. What we have been doing, it appears, is to shift more and more toward what one Assistant Secretary of State has called "global unilateralism." Whether by air strikes on Libya, withdrawals from international organizations, trade sanctions against Japan, or secret operations in the Middle East and Central America, we seem inclined to pursue our goals around the world with somewhat less attention to the interests...