Word: pledgees
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The Prime Minister also renewed her pledge to control inflation, cut income taxes and maintain Britain's membership in the European Community. Any attempt to pull out of the Community, she said, would "put at risk millions of jobs." Thatcher promised to denationalize such major government-owned companies as...
At Harold Washington's boisterous victory rally in Chicago's Donnelley Hall last month, his supporters held aloft a banner that read RIZZO IS NEXT. The allusion was to Philadelphia's hard-nosed former mayor Frank Rizzo, who has fought an uphill battle against his black opponent...
In his speech, Reagan confronted the issue directly, as if trying to exorcise its paralyzing spell. "Let me say to those who invoke the memory of Viet Nam: there is no thought of sending American combat troops to Central America." This prompted the night's most thunderous ovation, one that...
Yet behind the Administration's often caustic rhetoric has been a relatively steady and moderate approach to Central America that is generally consistent with that taken by the Carter Administration. The State Department has worked to foster centrist democratic institutions in El Salvador and prodded the right-leaning government there...
The situation bears enormous risks for both sides. The U.S. simply cannot be secure in a world in which Western Europe's freedom and independence are in question because of Soviet pressures; Europeans, for their part, know all too well that the fundamental guarantee of their security and survival...