Word: opinionizing
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...rest of the country takes part," declares McLellan. The jets bring a lot of Americans in directly--businessmen, entertainers, what not. The others can watch on TV, and that creates an open forum of national opinion that restrains bad taste or misbehavior...
...moment it seemed that the South African government had made a significant concession to world opinion. State President P.W. Botha had partly lifted the state of emergency that for the past three months has suspended civil liberties in some of the areas hit by protest. But it turned out that Botha's order affected only six districts, all relatively rural and quiet, of the 36 areas given emergency status. Then Botha took away with one hand what he had given with the other: he extended the emergency measures to eight more districts, including, for the first time, riot-racked Cape...
...Some of our critics do have litmus tests," complains Rees angrily. "They say that no matter how well qualified a candidate is, he can't be a judge if he shares President Reagan's opinion of abortion or affirmative action." The escalation of partisan infighting has begun to worry close observers who take neither side in the fray. Constitutional Scholar Archibald Cox, who was fired as special Watergate prosecutor by President Nixon, fears that politicizing the appointment process endangers something more crucial to the nation than either party's social agenda. He warns, "The idea of judicial independence...
Thus in the White House view, Reagan can claim some success from a summit that results in no more than a vigorous argument ending in an agreement to continue negotiations on a variety of subjects at various levels. That would satisfy U.S. public opinion, says one adviser: "People think we ought to talk to the Soviets, ought to talk to them more than we do, but they do not trust the Soviets much...
...August. At the time, the Philippine economy, now described by Filipino economic experts as a "basket case," was already in a severe tailspin. Foreign debt had reached $26 billion, gross national product was shrinking at an annual rate of about 5%, and underemployment was estimated to be 40%. An opinion poll taken by a private think tank with ties to the Roman Catholic Church, however, showed that 44% of the population was willing to credit Marcos and his ruling party with doing a good job. More important, the democratic forces that had been galvanized by the 1983 assassination of Opposition...