Word: politicians
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That explanation was not implausible. Pastora is not a hardened Communist; nationalism, rather than Marxism, has always been his creed. Moreover, he is more soldier than politician, and thus may have become impatient with the rather low-level administrative job in the military he was given by the victorious Sandinistas...
...terror" between the Arabs and Israel. Begin seized on Saddam's statements as proof that Israel had been right in its contention that Iraq was developing nuclear weapons and thus justified in bombing the facility. Moshe Dayan, former Israeli Foreign Minister, then became the first leading Israeli politician to admit publicly that Israel has "the ability to quickly produce nuclear weapons." However, Israel has said nothing about allegations that it already has a nuclear arsenal...
...thus be that New Yorkers see in Koch a political sensibility that they recognize in themselves, that of a practical politician who has not always been that...
...1960s were a period of extravagant idiocy, but also of great pain; and no politician who has been through that time could remain untouched by both extremes. The Koch who started out as a softy by his own account, and who then acquired a carapace, is different from a political leader who had no soft spot to begin with. With such a convert there is always the possibility (suspicion, hope) that he sympathizes more than he lets on ? as in the anecdote Koch loves to tell of the judge who got mugged and then announced that it would have...
White veers from arrogant to melancholy, and can be vindictive in either mood. He is usually at odds with every other major politician in the state. He has ethical blind spots: this winter, for example, he scheduled a birthday party for his wife, encouraged cash gifts from city employees, then canceled the party after public and media pressure and pledged to return the money. He has a keen eye and a generous hand with young talent, yet he fires some and drives many of the rest away...