Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...emphasizing South Africa's solidarity with the West against Soviet Communism. Declared Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu, the winner of the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize: "What has Nelson's release to do with Sakharov? I can't see why they are linked. It looks like a ploy that a politician has thought up, that will sound good to ears in the West (and show) that he is concerned about prisoners of conscience --when he's got so many prisoners of conscience of his own." Other observers speculated that while Angola might be interested in a prisoner swap, the Soviet Union would...
Pledging to "empower the people" and to "convert a budget for bombs into a budget for life," former Boston mayoral candidate Melvin H. King has become the latest politician formally to enter the packed Eighth Congressional District race...
Extremism in the defense of liberty may be no vice, as an old politician once said, but Jerry Williams et. al. carry the concept of liberty to an insupportable extreme...
...regime? Because, he answers, it harbored counterrevolutionaries. He insists that Cuba never tortured or murdered priests and did not close a single church. Church-state relations have improved somewhat in recent years, and Castro even fancies that it is time for Pope John Paul II ("a noteworthy politician") to visit Cuba. Of this newfound cordiality, one Western diplomat in Havana observes, "Castro can afford to be magnanimous; religion today in Cuba is hardly a threat." In fact, Catholicism was never deeply rooted in the country. Today there are perhaps 80,000 active Catholics in a nation of some 10 million...
...have reunited the two completed parts of Grosz's blistering anti-establishment triptych of 1926, Eclipse of the Sun and Pillars of Society. The latter, with its beer-hall vision of the coming new order--a servile journalist wearing a chamber pot, a flabby blimp of a politician with a steaming headful of excrement, and a militarist with a swastika tiepin and ectoplastic dreams of conquest in his skull--has a Brechtian violence that is beyond the scope of most modern cartooning...