Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...voter "wary-worried -waiting" [Sept. 15]? You jest. With runaway inflation, forced busing and senseless murders, I'm ready to vote right now. Against every incumbent politician and judge...
...street as if he were an old friend. That night, as he walked unobtrusively by the bleachers during a high school football game, teen-agers shouted: "Hey, George!" At 58, George McGovern is probably South Dakota's best-known and, on a personal level, best-liked politician. Nonetheless, this year McGovern is in trouble because many of the same constituents who think he is so personable have decided that he is too liberal...
...mild-mannered and bespectacled, Alhaji Shehu Shagari, 55, seems the very antithesis of the stereotypical boisterous Nigerian politician. But when the former school-teacher speaks, people listen. The reason: he is the leader of a country that boasts Africa's biggest population (90 million), largest standing army (130,000) and a G.N.P. of more than $50 billion. As one African diplomat puts it, "Whenever there is an important African issue, everyone waits to see what Nigeria decides. You can oppose it, but you must always take it into account...
Thomas P. O'Neill St. was a classic Irish politician. Originally a bricklayer in North Cambridge, O'Neill rose through his labor uhion to become a city councilor, and superintendent of sewers. Known as "the governor" in North Cambridge, he controlled much of the city's Irish machine...
...grabs, and the grabs are his, since he is an interpreter. If he is the only one who knows what reality is, then he must also be the only one who knows what it ought to be. In short, he has the world on a string-every politician's dream...