Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that solitude, Baker probably also contemplates his future as a politician...
Most disturbing was the violence that scarred the three-week election campaign. Nearly 90 bombs were detonated and 23 persons killed, bringing the death toll in Ulster during the past four years to 839. Two days before the election, Patrick Wilson, a leading Catholic politician and a chief aide to S.D.L.P. Leader Gerry Fitt, was hacked to death by an apparently new Protestant terrorist group called the Ulster Freedom Fighters. Wilson's murder suggested that members of the new Assembly would have a difficult time ahead of them in governing the still troubled province...
...Italian-American, Nardelli wanted to support Representative Mario Biaggi in this year's mayoral primary. However, because he is a pragmatic politician, Nardelli knew he could...
Woodside explained that much of Cambodian history has been a continual effort to fend off Thai encroachments from the west and Vietnamese advances from the east. "Historically, any Cambodian politician who received Vietnamese aid would eventually be a dead duck in Cambodian politics," he said...
...last year of his life, Charles de Gaulle was walking on the grounds of his estate at Colombey les-Dcux Eglises with his aide-decamp, Colonel Jean d'Escrienne. During their chat, D'Escrienne asked the general to repeat the name of a politician he had mentioned. "So you plan to write a book about me some day," said De Gaulle. Last week D'Escrienne's book, Le Général m'a dit . . . (The General Told Me), was published in Paris. It contains no major political revelations, but abounds in illustrations...