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...They are the phalanx of the conservative movement," says Roger J. Landry '92, a Peninsula council member and co-founder. "We would be the philosophical command central...
That proved to be an important factor leading to his defeat in the November 1989 elections. V.P. Singh, a former Congress notable whose opposition bloc went on to win the government, charged at the time that Gandhi, who usually kept out of the crush and was shielded by a phalanx of commandos, "had lost touch with the people." It was a mistake -- as Rajiv saw it -- that he did not repeat. While pressing the flesh in the northern state of Bihar on May 5, he spoke about the change. "I used to campaign like this when I was secretary-general...
...book's subjects has been just as hot. Nancy Reagan has thus far refused any comment, though friends described her as "profoundly upset" at Kelley's attack. Ronald Reagan put out a statement seething with outrage: "The flagrant and absurd falsehoods . . . clearly exceed the bounds of decency." A phalanx of Reagan friends and former advisers lashed out at the book, both in whole and in parts. Sheila Tate, Nancy Reagan's former press secretary, charged that there are 20 factual errors in the passages involving her alone. She described the purported Nancy Reagan-Frank Sinatra tryst in the White House...
...love," said Natalia Kositskaya, a 50-year-old doctor at a Moscow military clinic, "and I am ashamed of it. I never would have believed Gorbachev could do this. In the past two years, he has become a devil." Her tears continued as she pointed at the moving phalanx of police. "It is a crime," she said...
...campaigner was also undermined by near tragedy: in April a deranged woman plunged a knife into his neck, just missing the carotid artery. The assassination attempt forced Lafontaine into a two-month convalescence; he abandoned shaking hands and signing autographs and gave his campaign speeches surrounded by a phalanx of bodyguards...