Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this fall by NBC on a new late-night comedy program. Last month he completed a month's work acting in Taxi Driver, Director Martin Scorsese's upcoming feature starring Oscar Winner Robert DeNiro as a psychotic New York cabbie. Brooks portrays the campaign aide of a politician about whom DeNiro develops a homicidal fixation. Scorsese added three extra scenes to capitalize on Brooks' talents...
Savimbi is a slick and opportunistic politician who seeks to present himself as a moderate and a mediator, the logical compromise choice to become the first president of Angola. He rejects the anti-imperialist rhetoric of the MPLA and FNLA as irresponsible: "Complete independence is impossible. The population must not be misled on this point by propaganda. We must wait long years to attain economic independence." Savimbi favors "democratic socialism" and wants to "build a socialist society in Africa--not one molded on China, Senegal, or Congo, but one that fits in with the history and realities of our country...
...State Department spokesman who lied about Francis Gary Powers' U-2 flight over Russia in 1960 could presumably have been prosecuted. Certainly the Nixon Administration's high-level lying about the B-52 bombing of Cambodia would have been actionable. Of course, Ted Kennedy is politician enough not to want to apply the law to campaign promises and political rhetoric - such a prohibition might jail nearly every elected official in the nation, depending on how rigorously one defined...
...Democrat Hugh Carey was an obscure politician before his election as New York's Governor last year, his oilman brother Edward was almost invisible. Yet had it not been for Edward, Hugh Carey might not be in office at all. As the secretive, quietly ambitious chief and sole owner of the sprawling Carey Energy Corp., Edward Michael Carey bankrolled his brother's campaign to the tune of $1 million...
...alignments have changed drastically since 1969, No longer is it black and white worker-hero tenants of Harvard Vs. evil landlord with expansionist, tendencies. In fact, the situation is so confused that publicity for the massive project has been stymied. Things have gotten so cloudy that a local politician, State Rep. Kevin Fitzgerald, came right out and admitted that he was "confused" about his position on the issue...