Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...caught with 700,000 leaflets endorsing the protests. The arrest may have been a mistake. A crowd of 500 jammed Santiago's Supreme Court building to hear a lawyer read a statement signed by 1,000 prominent Chileans calling for Valdés' release. Said a Socialist politician: "The dictatorship has unwillingly made a national leader out of Gabriel Vald...
...step on the moon (He never did.) Among the 15,000 people who turned out for the Fourth of July parade in Clear Lake, Iowa, in which Glenn rode in a 1964 Chevrolet convertible, was Jim Conrin, 63, farmer and loyal Democrat. Mondale, he said disparagingly, was "an establishment politician," but he noted of Glenn: "I like his sincerity." Rather than emphasizing specific issues or making promises to special constituencies, Glenn has concentrated on evoking a sense of traditional values that he hopes will appeal to a broad-based constituency...
Sullivan, a liberal politician and Harvard Law School graduate who usually gets the most student support, says that the experience is a two way street. "In addition to helping the candidate and community with your skills, it could be one of the most important parts of your education...
...accident that the leading Democratic politician on Capitol Hill. Speaker of the House Thomas P. O'Neill, halls from Cambridge. Mass It is no accident either that he's a Democrat, because there essentially is no Republican party in the city (of the five state legislative races covering Cambridge last fall, only one was contested by a GOP candidate who got drubbed) And it is no mere whim of fate that he is a successful pol, because the city has a grand tradition of training aspiring officeholders with good old fashioned street corner, rough and tumble politics...
...cuff remarks, they often find themselves having to correct his misstatements of fact. "The operative word is ignorant," Curtis Wilkie, a Washington correspondent for the Boston Globe, told Hodding Carter. "He's lazy. He's not stupid. He's shrewd. He's a smart politician." Sam Donaldson of ABC added: "You combine a very mechanized, ruthless ability to control the flow of news and Mr. Reagan's absence of a lot of depth . . . and you have a situation that just drives us up the wall...