Word: pols
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...heven . . ." At the local sports field he watched benignly as bare-breasted women in grass skirts chanted hymns and drummers sporting feathered headdresses pounded out an accompaniment on hollow logs covered with animal skins. When the Pope gave his blessings to the crowd, the shouts of "Mi laikim Jon Pol!" were deafening...
Behind his back, some of his entourage called him "the candidate." There was the somber and fastidious President of France, barnstorming across the U.S. last week like a practiced old pol. He rapped about jazz in the South, cradled a squealing suckling pig in the Midwest, shook hands with demonstrators in the West, and pressed Legion of Honor medals on every mayor he met. He barely speaks a word of English, but it hardly mattered. When François Mitterrand gushed, "J'aime le peuple Americain," everybody got the message...
Refugees' reports, for instance, are often dismissed as unreliable. But, as even Rep. Stephen J. Solarz (D-N.Y.), an authority on Asia and trenchant critic of the Administration, has pointed out, this contempt is ill founded. Refugees ranging from the Jews fleeing Nazi Germany to Cambodians fleeing Pol Pot carried the truth about the regimes they were fleeing, though it was initially dismissed. Solarz writes, "It strains credulity to believe that the refugees escaping "yellow rain" in Asia, alone among the victims of repression, are engaged in a monumental hoax...
...hotels. They were tired now. There was no whooping, no hollering. They had talked of tearing the town apart, but in the end they were as docile as garden slugs. The only recorded incident of aberrant behavior occurred at the Hotel George V, where, according to Manager Paulo De Pol, a man tossed his cowboy hat into the air, demanded a car and driver, and expressed the intention of hitting every bar in Paris. A little later, two of De Pol's employees carried the comatose celebrator to his room, where he remained for the next three days, conversing...
...able to directly influence Pol Pot, Marcos, or Stalin, but we can certainly influence the foreign policy of our own government," said Dr. Jonathan Fine, president of American committee for Human Rights...