Word: pols
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After Communist Chairman Pol Pot became Premier of Democratic Kampuchea in 1976, his forces stepped up their assaults along the border. The Vietnamese retaliated with air and artillery strikes. Four months ago, the defiant Khmer Rouge launched their most ferocious attack yet, killing at least 1,000 villagers in a series of raids...
Thomas Danehy, an Independent councilor, has received his own vote and that of long-time Cambridge pol Walter J. Sullivan on each ballot. Kevin P. Crane, another Independent, has voted "present" on almost all the ballots, while Lawrence Frisoli, scion of a powerful local family, seems to be voting at random. And the inimitable Vellucci keeps voting for himself...
...minutes five days a week over WBBM, the CBS-owned station for which he doubles as political editor. In addition, Madigan is closely tied to the still clanking municipal machine of the late Mayor Richard Daley, a rare alliance for a newsman in these post-Watergate days of pol bashing. Indeed, while other reporters stood outside in the cold, Madigan was allowed to broadcast Daley's funeral live from inside the church last winter. The "Committee of Friends of John Madigan" that sponsored last week's soiree included two Congressmen, two former Governors and long ballots of lesser...
...nearly five years, then returned to his home town. After becoming WBBM-TV news director, he switched to the network's AM radio outlet in 1968. Snide and thunderous on the air, Madigan at home in his lakefront high-rise is a man of quiet humor, Irish-pol anecdotes and a smile as wide as the Dan Ryan Expressway...
Your article on Cambodia [Nov. 21] made me wonder what happened to all of the people who screamed "genocide" at American activities in Southeast Asia designed to prevent the type of atrocities currently being committed by the Pol Pot regime. Our human rights campaign has to date been highly selective, directed primarily against governments of the right while leaving left-leaning regimes almost completely alone. Talk about the old double standard...