Word: persian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President too put the best face on the situation, telling reporters he ( had 'great confidence" in Mrs. Reagan's doctors. But sources close to the Reagans reported that his wife's condition has distracted the President while the White House was trying to manage the crisis in the Persian Gulf and salvage Robert Bork's sinking Supreme Court nomination...
...stopping me? There are a lot of positive things about the Persian Gulf," he said...
Mounting tensions in the oil-rich Persian Gulf and the nation's increasing dependency on foreign oil have pushed energy issues into the fore-front of the 1988 presidential race...
Dukakis has proposed a major shift from current priorities, calling for development of domestic energy resources, a change in trading partners from the warring nations of the Persian Gulf to countries closer to home, such as Canada, Mexico and Venezuela. He also called for the U.S. to impose sanctions on Iran and Iraq...
...rivals these days are depicting him as Senator Thunderbolt. Gore has supported the U.S. naval presence in the Persian Gulf, the invasion of Grenada and the bombing of Libya. He opposes the proposal by most of his opponents for a ban on missile flight tests. He says his centrist views make him more "electable" than the other five Democrats in the race, particularly Michael Dukakis, who opposes almost any use of American force abroad as well as virtually all new nuclear weapon systems...