Word: patly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After a ten-page draft of the speech written by Communications Director Pat Buchanan was circulated a week ago, State Department bureaucrats argued that it should be canceled. So did White House political operatives, and Chief of Staff Donald Regan eventually agreed. National Security Adviser John Poindexter, on the other hand, contended that even without concrete measures, the speech would put more pressure on Pretoria. A tentative decision had been made to scuttle the speech before Shultz arrived for a meeting with the President. The Secretary took Poindexter's side; he wanted a clear statement of support for the policies...
That was so even before she called herself Sigourney. Susan was the name chosen by her parents Elizabeth Inglis, a British stage actress, and Sylvester Weaver, famous as "Pat" when he was president of NBC in the 1950s. The Weavers lived in a Sutton Place apartment once owned by Marion Davies; Sigourney remembers swinging on the golden gates leading to the living room. "I was a privileged, pampered, sheltered child," she says of this Wasp gentility. "It was as though every day had a happy ending. My brother Trajan and I had gold cards giving us the run of Radio...
...Yale School of Drama, Simpson met Sigourney in 1981 at the Williamstown, Mass., summer theater festival, where he is now a director. Nothing happened. Then in 1983, after conniving to invite him to a Halloween party, she snared her beau, and a year later they were married at Pat Weaver's Long Island yacht club. Two ministers, a woman and a man, performed the ceremony. As party favors the guests received washaway tattoos. A bagpipe and bongo drums underscored the service. "It was great fun," says Bill Murray, Weaver's co-star in Ghostbusters. "But then I've never seen...
...obtained a $70,000 judgment, which is now being appealed. Some Hawkins County children have been suspended for refusing to read the books. In Mobile, meanwhile, another group has brought a similar suit challenging the "secular humanist" teachings of the public schools. That case, backed by TV Evangelist Pat Robertson, a potential presidential candidate in 1988, is scheduled to go to trial this October...
...Pat Robertson, head of the Christian Broadcasting Network and the favorite son among evangelical Christians for the Republican nomination in 1988, envisions a moral resurgence in America. "I see a definite spiritual revival that is touching the standards of conduct of the entire society, which has gone too far toward sexual freedom . . . Americans perceive a serious crisis to the long-range stability of the American family. The American people are looking for a return to moral values that strengthen the family." The theme is not just limited to the preachers of the right. Jesse Jackson, for one, has spoken...