Word: pleasing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though Britain and France had rejected U.S. pleas for minesweepers two weeks ago, both now felt compelled to act. London announced it was sending four mine hunters to join the three-warship Armilla Patrol that has escorted British tankers in the region for the past six years. Defense Secretary George...
The dissenters' pleas are answered in Pale Kings and Princes, a wry and rowdy tale of a Massachusetts burg corrupted by drug money. The first-person narrative is a running comic diatribe against such targets as ignorant bartenders, hash-house cooking, thick-necked lawmen and macho, possessive Latin lovers. Most...
By claiming he did not tell the President, John Poindexter lifts some pressure off Ronald Reagan. But his testimony raises questions: Is it credible? Can policies succeed when responsibility stops short of the Oval Office? -- Oliver North' s pleas for the contras revive efforts to win more U. S. aid...
Issues passionate and human and difficult surge up against the Constitution. Every day it attends to the pleas of lust, rage, unborn life, the killer's remorse, the President's prerogatives, the First Amendment rights of a Ku Klux Klansman. The Constitution even makes a ritual appearance in the American...
White House Spokesman Marlin Fitzwater reiterated Reagan's earlier claim that he thought the money was used only to buy TV ads to persuade Congress to support the contras. But Fitzwater's response was carefully hedged. Said he: "In the legal view of the White House, the President is not...