Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Democrats would have a hard time imagining a more frightening scenario. Perhaps the most articulate and bright Democratic legislator, Frank embarrasses himself and the party. The high-flying career of the most prominent gay politician in the country crashes amidst charges of sexual indiscretion...
...Thompson pursued that question by joining a congressional fact-finding mission to the Amazon. The local contingent of our jungle team, Rio de Janeiro bureau chief Laura Lopez and reporter John Maier, made its own treks through the region. Maier was struck by how virtually everyone in the region, politician and peasant alike, knew that the Amazon was the subject of intense international debate. In speaking with one poor farmer near the Peruvian border, Maier reports, "As soon as I began asking questions, the farmer said to me, 'Whose side are you on, the environmentalists' or ours?' " That question, Maier...
...amassed a detailed personal knowledge of world leaders. Like Nixon, Bush has a habit of adding intimate footnotes when intelligence briefers provide him with thumbnail biographies of figures making news overseas. "That guy isn't like that at all," he told an analyst who was profiling a foreign politician. "He goes back a long way with some of these cats," a senior official recounted. Two weeks ago, in a remarkable display of Rolodex diplomacy, Bush telephoned Kings Hussein of Jordan, Hassan of Morocco, Fahd of Saudi Arabia; Prime Ministers Turgut Ozal of Turkey and Margaret Thatcher of Britain; Chancellor Helmut...
...careful, pragmatic politician, he seeks opinions, relies on advisers and likes to split the difference on difficult choices. An inside look at how this White House operates. -- The hostages are still a long way from home, but the bazaar is open. -- Do guns save more lives than they lose? The National Rifle Association says so. See NATION...
MICKEY Leland was found Sunday on a desolate mountainside in western Ethiopia, near the Sudanese border. Surrounded by the wreckage of the two-engine plane lies the body of the Texas representative. Not a typical memorial to a politician. But, as the ever-so-trite saying goes, he was not your typical politician...