Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wrote a book-later he said it was only an "unfinished manuscript," the contents of which were leaked by unscrupulous reporters-that began to explain the subversive and destructive forces at work in his country. The thesis of the "manuscript" The Politician, now in its ninth printing with more than 285,000 copies in print, is startling: "Dwight D. Eisenhower was, through his whole career, a dedicated, conscious agent of the Communist conspiracy," and was guilty of treason...
...watch his and announces he must depart. Arrangements are made for a future meeting in Geneva, which Wallraff does not intend to keep. Soon he will emerge again into the public eye armed with enough evidence to force Spinola's expulsion from Switzerland, an investigation of the right-wing politician Franz-Josef Strauss, who had been preparing to sneak Spinola into Germany, and the failure of General Spinola's attempt to take over Portugal...
...were two of the nation's foremost political figures, Ted Kennedy and Ronald Reagan. Kennedy was trounced 2 to 1 by Jimmy Carter, and immediately found himself so strapped for funds that he had to stop paying his campaign workers. The Senator, who had been the most glamorous politician in the U.S. and who had seemed invincible only a few months ago, suffered the kind of setback he had never known or perhaps ever expected. Seldom had such a promising campaign floundered with such astonishing swiftness...
...place of his son, Filartiga appears to have adopted a nation. He speaks of "my people," not as a politician would carelessly sling around the tired buzzword, but as a father who has expanded his household to embrace a country...
...leftist insurgency or a succession of military coup d'etats. Both clergy and anti-government people agree, the outfight agitations of the liberals and Sin's cautious campaigning do not raise questions of an improper mixing of church and state, or even of meddling in politics. As one opposition politician said, "All politics ended in 1972. This is a moral issue...