Word: pols
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Whenever the topics of UNESCO, the U.N.'s condemnation of Zionism as racism, or the organization's continued support for Pol Pot come up in discussion, U.N. apologists usually start talking of the U.N. as the champion of law in the nasty and brutish international arena...
Boston's Human Rights Commission observed the anniversary on Saturday with a conference on human rights. Speakers included former Soviet dissident Yuri Orlov, Assistant Secretary of State for Humanitarian Affairs James Montgomery, and Dith Pran, the Cambodian journalist whose survival under Pol Pot's regime was documented in the film, "The Killing Fields...
Crane's greatest challenge is to combat his image as an old-time Bay State pol building his personal finances on his ability to to dispense patronage...
...White House wants to make sure that the seat remains Republican. Nevada is Reagan country. White- haired, pink-cheeked Republican Contender Jim Santini, a former Democratic Congressman, has made good use of commercials that feature the President saying he needs Santini in the Senate. A shrewd, backslapping veteran pol, Santini has tried to depict his opponent, Democratic Congressman Harry Reid, as that Republican bogeyman, a "Tip O'Neill liberal." Reid depicts himself as a fighter against Big Business and the "Washington power brokers." A blond, soft-spoken Mormon, Reid has tried to peg Santini as a turncoat and a pawn...
...absence of strong ideological differences, images have become important: D'Amico's campaign has presented him as the rumpled, savvy pol with working-class roots and a common touch. Murphy plays the polished administrator, decisive and effective in the practice of a traditionally male profession...