Word: politicians
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Ronald Reagan will always be remembered as the Republican President who made both the Democrats and the press scream about the deficit. It will be a long time before another politician can with impunity spend more money than he takes in. If only Congress would understand the seriousness of the message and begin to cut spending...
...task," says Hart's Southern coordinator, David Garrett III, "is to show that Gary is an atypical politician who can't be characterized as liberal, conservative or moderate...
Robert Dallek's Ronald Reagan: The Politics of Symbolism, shows this psychological mastery to be the principal Reagan strength. Reagan is portrayed in the "ideologue as politician," a package of symbolic responses that fit an American need to feel good. Unlike other more traditional books on Reagan--for instance, Lou Cannon's Reagan--Dallek's is a psychological portrait that seeks to explain Reagan's image of himself and the image he portrays to others...
Jackson is not the only prominent politician to speak strongly against recent Jewish policies, especially the 1981 invasion of Lebanon and the resulting Shatilla massacre. Candidate George S. McGovern has taken a political line similar to Jackson's, though he has couched his rhetoric in friendly terms. McGovern, before the same Manchester audience that heard Jackson, said he criticized Israel as a "friend," not as an adversary...
...question. He must form a new government, since Prime Minister Chafik al Wazzan resigned a month ago. But he will not be able to find a new Prime Minister, who traditionally must be a Sunni Muslim, until the treaty issue is resolved. As a leading Lebanese politician described the situation last week: "No Sunni Muslim who wants to keep his name clean within his community would dare allow himself to be considered for Prime Minister without abrogation of the treaty. He would be considered a quisling...