Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...HAND, Reagan and company are only fighting part of the problem. Attacking "hardcore" drugs--including cocaine, crack, and heroin--is a slick political move. Users are universally held in low esteem and are commonly regarded less as victims than as criminals. On this issue, a politician just can't lose...
Ironically, Reagan's particular vision is a startlingly radical one for such a successful politician. Not surprisingly, though, Americans haven't bought it. Polls show time and time again that there are few issues of which it can be said mainstream Americans have moved measurably to the right. What Americans appreciate is leadership, and in a party or a President that means standing for something...
Objecting to both the form and substance of Veera's remarks, an opposition politician filed charges that Veera had offended the dignity of King Bhumibol Adulyadej. The allegations cost Veera his job, even though he knelt in parliament before a picture of the sovereign and asked forgiveness. Palace sources, though, have let it be known that Veera's remarks were deemed harmless. That could greatly aid his defense against the charges...
...stand-up comedian just after the heyday of "Hey, hey, L.B.J." protests, Randy Quaid used to do a takeoff routine on Lyndon Johnson. "He was always some kind of buffoon figure for me when I was growing up," he acknowledges. But after being cast as the Texas politician in LBJ, an NBC-TV movie to air next season, Quaid immersed himself in research that included taped interviews with Lady Bird Johnson, who is played by Patti LuPone. "I came to have this immense respect for the man," fellow Texan Quaid, 35, says now. "I could identify very strongly with...
...President Daniel Ortega Saavedra made the rounds in New York City last week during an eight-day visit to the U.S., it was easy to forget that he is the man who just a month ago called Ronald Reagan "a new Hitler." Instead, the seasoned comandante played the polished politician, while he embarked on a campaign to win American hearts and minds. During meetings with political, church and press groups, he answered questions with some candor, trying, though not always successfully, to steer clear of revolutionary jargon. Appearing before the United Nations Security Council, he appealed for U.N. endorsement...