Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Operator Jesse Unruh. He continues to defend big government, even though his aides warn him that such a position leaves him far out of step with the mood of the country. Last week at a Minneapolis luncheon for retired federal employees, the Senator pounded away at his theme. "Any politician who tells you we need less government is lying," he told them. "More efficient government, more responsive government, yes. But let's not junk everything we've built. That's cheap talk...
...best woman politician I've seen," said a Texas Republican last week of Anne Legendre Armstrong. "She's sugar and steel." Gerald Ford, who will announce her appointment as U.S. Ambassador to Britain this week, plainly agrees. Those who knew her as co-chairman of the Republican National Committee in 1972 or as a Cabinet-rank White House counselor during the Nixon Administration were equally extravagant in their notices. At once tough, gracious and articulate, Mrs. Armstrong is one of Ford's more distinguished appointments. The only shadow of criticism is that she doggedly defended Richard Nixon...
Teng has impressive credentials as a wily politician and a pragmatic administrator. Yet he lacks the almost spiritual aura enjoyed by Mao and Chou as architects of the New China. Moreover, Teng does not enjoy a large power base of his own. His leadership depends on the approval of the aging chairman and the apparent consent of factions within the party whose often bitter quarrels were effectively stilled by Chou...
...corporations, labor unions and other sources-"A bottle of Scotch at Christmas from Uncle Sam," as one diplomat put it. (It is also considerably less than the $27 million the Contmunists reportedly received from the Soviet embassy for campaign expenses in the 1972 general election.) Anti-Communist Italian politicians testily denied that any CIA contributions were-or would be-accepted. The Republican Party went so far as to cable the New York Times demanding a retraction. Some Italian politicians were dismayed that the Ford Administration did not simply issue a categorical denial of any plans for secret funding. Not only...
...something about terrorism in the province," said William Craig, head of the Protestant Vanguard Party. Catholics, on the other hand, were wary; for years the I.R.A. has charged (and the British army has denied) that SAS units have regularly operated covert assassination squads in the province. A leading Catholic politician, Austin Currie, warned that some people will see the presence of the SAS as an anti-Catholic move unless soldiers are also sent in against Protestant terrorists. One clear danger was that the action will not intimidate the I.R.A. so much as inspire it to renewed violence. "Has Wilson thrown...